Salman Rushdie [electronic resource].
Teverson, Andrew.
Manchester : Manchester University Press,
2007.
Salman Rushdie is one of the world's most important writers of politicised fiction. He is a self-proclaimed controversialist, capable of exciting radically divergent viewpoints, a novelist of extraordinary imaginative range and power, and an erudite, and often fearless, commentator upon the state of global politics today. In this comprehensive and lucid critical study, Andrew Teverson examines the intellectual, biographical, literary and cultural contexts from which Rushdie's fiction springs in order to help the reader make sense of the often complex debates that surround the life and work of 
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9780719070501; 9780719070501; Copyright; Contents; Series editor's foreword; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Chronology; PART I Contexts and intertexts; 1 Introduction; 2 Political and intellectual contexts; 3 Writing in English; 4 Intertextuality, influence and the postmodern; 5 Biographical contexts; PART II Novels and criticism; 6 From science fiction to history: Grimus and Midnight's Children; 7 Tragedy in Shame; 8 Satire in The Satanic Verses; 9 Pessoptimistic fictions:Haroun and the Sea of Stories and The Moor's Last Sigh
10 The pop novel in the age of globalisation:The Ground Beneath Her Feet and Fury11 Critical overview and conclusion; AFTERWORD: Shalimar the Clown; Notes; Select bibliography; Index
Salman Rushdie is one of the world's most important writers of politicised fiction. He is a self-proclaimed controversialist, capable of exciting radically divergent viewpoints, a novelist of extraordinary imaginative range and power, and an erudite, and often fearless, commentator upon the state of global politics today. In this comprehensive and lucid critical study, Andrew Teverson examines the intellectual, biographical, literary and cultural contexts from which Rushdie's fiction springs in order to help the reader make sense of the often complex debates that surround the life and work of 
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Rushdie, Salman