Title: Critical essays on Salman Rushdie /
Authors: Booker, M. Keith.
Publisher: G.K. Hall,
Year: 1999
Subjects: Rushdie, Salman Criticism and interpretation.; Rushdie, Salman.; Islam and literature.; India In literature.
Abstract: This is a collection of critical essays on Salman Rushdie's works by M. Keith Booker, Ambreen Hai, Aamir R. Mufti, Feroza Jussawalla, Timothy Brennan, Bishnupriya Ghosh, Farhad B. Idris, Dubravka Juraga, Michael Gorra, and other essayists.
Contents: Salman Rushdie: the development of a literary reputation / M. Keith Booker -- "Marching in from the Peripheries": Rushdie's feminized artistry and ambivalent feminism / Ambreen Hai -- Reading the Rushdie affair: "Islam," cultural politics, form / Aamir R. Mufti -- Rushdie's Dastan-e-Dilruba: The Satanic verses as Rushdie's love letter to Islam / Feroza Jussawalla -- The cultural politics of Rushdie criticism: all or nothing / Timothy Brennan -- An invitation to Indian postmodernity: Rushdie's English vernacular as situated cultural hybridity / Bishnupriya Ghosh -- The Moor's last sigh and India's national bourgeoisie: reading Rushdie through Frantz Fanon / Farhad B. Idris -- "The mirror of us all": Midnight's children and the twentieth-century bildungsroman / Dubravka Juraga -- "This Angrezi in which I am forced to write": on the language of Midnight's children / Michael Gorra -- Allegorizing the emergency: Rushdie's Midnight's children and Benjamin's theory of allegory / Todd M. Kuchta -- Rewriting history and identity: the reinvention of myth, epic, and allegory in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's children / Michael Reder -- Victim into protagonist? Midnight's children and the post-Rushdie national narratives of the eighties / Josna E. Rege -- Midnight's children, history, and complexity: reading Rushdie after the cold war / M. Keith Booker.