'The New Atheist Novel' is a study of a major new genre of contemporary fiction. It examines how Richard Dawkins's so-called 'New Athemism' movement has caught the imagination of four eminent modern novelists: Ian McEwan, Martin Amis, Salman Rushdie and Philip Pullman.
'The New Atheist Novel' is a study of a major new genre of contemporary fiction. It examines how Richard Dawkins's so-called 'New Athemism' movement has caught the imagination of four eminent modern novelists: Ian McEwan, Martin Amis, Salman Rushdie and Philip Pullman.
"The book focuses on the representation of South Asian life in works by four Anglophone writers: V.S. Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh, and Anita Desai. Concentrating on the intertwined topics of nationalism, transnationalism, and fundamentalism, the book addresses the disl…
"The book focuses on the representation of South Asian life in works by four Anglophone writers: V. S. Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh, and Anita Desai. Concentrating on the intertwined topics of nationalism, transnationalism, and fundamentalism, the book addresses the dis…
by Teverson, Andrew, Manchester University Press
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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, commenta…
Salman Rushdie is one of the world's most important writers of politicised fiction. This study 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 su…
