Salman Rushdie

This introduction places the fiction of Salman Rushdie in a clear historical and theoretical context. Morton explores Rushdie''s biography, the histories that inform his major works and his relevance to contemporary culture. Including a timeline of key dates, this study offers an overview of the varied critical reception Rushdie''s work has provoked>

List of contents

General Editors Preface
Acknowledgments
PART 1: INTRODUCTION
Timeline
Introduction
Author Biography
PART 2: MAJOR WORKS
Midnight's Children and Shame
The Satanic Verses, Haroun and the Sea of Stories and East, West
The Moor's Last Sigh
Shalimar the Clown
PART 3: CRITICISM AND CONTEXTS
Rushdie's Non-fiction
Rushdie in Question: The Critical Reception
Annotated Further Reading and Bibliography.

About the author

Stephen Morton

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Morton
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.11.2007
• EAN: 9781403997012
• ISBN: 978-1-4039-9701-2
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: New British Fiction; New British Fiction (Paperback; New British Fiction (Paperback; New British Fiction
• Subjects: Education and learning; Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; B, Contemporary Literature, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Modern—20th century, Literature, Modern—21st century