Salman Rushdie
By: D.C.R.A. Goonetilleke.
Series: Modern novelists
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 168
Subjects: Rushdie, Salman -- Criticism and interpretation; Experimental fiction, English -- History and criticism; Pluralism (Social sciences) in literature; Postmodernism (Literature) -- Great Britain; Islam and literature
Description: In this study of Salman Rushdie, Professor Goonetilleke examines the Rushdie affair, but focuses more on Rushdie as a novelist. He considers his fiction as art and analyses his complex position as a writer who draws on the cultures of 2 hemispheres.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-164) and index.