Islam and Controversy [electronic resource] : The Politics of Free Speech After Rushdie /
Mondal, A.author.
Was Salman Rushdie right to have written The Satanic Verses ? Were the protestors right to have done so? What about the Danish cartoons? This book examines the moral questions raised by cultural controversies, and how intercultural dialogue might be generated within multicultural societies.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I; 1 From Blasphemy to Offensiveness: the Politics of Controversy; 2 What is Freedom of Speech For?; 3 A Difficult Freedom: Towards Mutual Understanding and the Ethics of Propriety; Part II; 4 The Self-Transgressions of Salman Rushdie: Re-Reading The Satanic Verses; 5 Visualism and Violence: On the Art and Ethics of Provocation in the Jyllands-Posten cartoons and Theo Van Gogh's Submission; 6 Romancing the Other: The Jewel of the Medina and the Ethics of Genre; Part III
7 Satire, Incitement and Self-Restraint: Reflections on Freedom of Expression and Aesthetic Responsibility in Contemporary BritainNotes and References; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Was Salman Rushdie right to have written The Satanic Verses ? Were the protestors right to have done so? What about the Danish cartoons? This book examines the moral questions raised by cultural controversies, and how intercultural dialogue might be generated within multicultural societies.
Rushdie, Salman.
Culture.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Literature   .
Literature—Philosophy.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Sociology of Culture.
Cultural and Media Studies, general.
Postcolonial/World Literature.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Twentieth-Century Literature.