Salman Rushdie
Subtitle: a postmodern reading of his major works
By: Sabrina Hassumani.
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Madison [NJ]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 154
Subjects: Rushdie, Salman -- Criticism and interpretation.; Postmodernism (Literature) -- Great Britain.
Description: "Salman Rushdie: A Postmodern Reading of His Major Works attempts a close textual analysis of Rushdie's five major novels: Midnight's Children, Shame, The Satanic Verses, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, and The Moor's Last Sigh.

It focuses on the manner in which Rushdie is a postmodern writer whose subject is the postcolonial moment and makes the point that unlike many other contemporary subcontinental authors writing in English, Rushdie recognizes that practicing identity politics leads to nativism and nationalism, categories he rejects because they merely invert the colonizer/colonized binary, leaving violent hierarchies intact.

His impulse, instead, is to deconstruct the colonizer/colonized binary and in doing so attempt to clear a "new" postmodern space."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.