Fiction after the fatwa
Subtitle: Salman Rushdie and the charm of catastrophe
By: Madelena Gonzalez.
Series: Costerus -- new ser., v. 153.
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Amsterdam; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
Subjects: Rushdie, Salman -- Criticism and interpretation
Description: "Fiction after the Fatwa: Salman Rushdie and the Charm of Catastrophe proposes for the first time in examination of what Rushdie has achieved as a writer since the fourteenth of February 1989, the date of the fatwa. This study argues that his constant questioning of fictional form and the language used to articulate it have opened up new opportunities and further possibilities for writing in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Through close readings and intensive textual analysis, arranged chronologically, Fiction after the Fatwa provides a thought-provoking reflection on the writer's achievements over the last thirteen years. Aimed principally at academics and students, but also of interest to the general reader, it engages with the specific nature of the post-fatwa fiction as it moves from the fairy-tale world of Haroun and the Sea of Stories to the heartbreaking post-realism of Fury."--BOOK JACKET.