Sir Salman Rushdie is perhaps the most significant living novelist in English. His second novel, Midnight's Children, is regularly cited as the 'Booker of Bookers' and its impact is still being felt in world literature. His fourth novel, The Satanic Verses, is a very major, poss…
"Sir Salman Rushdie is perhaps the most significant living novelist in English. His second novel, Midnight's Children, is regularly cited as the 'Booker of Bookers' and its impact is still being felt throughout in world literature. His fourth novel, The Satanic Verses, led to th…
A critical framework for reading cities in contemporary and postcolonial writing based on the development of the urban in Salman Rushdie's work
"Employing Salman Rushdie as a guide to a historicized contemporary, this study offers an interdisciplinary exploration of the plurality of cities along his transnational trajectory. It engages with the geographically identifiable Bombay, Karachi, Islamabad, London or New York; …
This is a critical framework for reading cities in contemporary and postcolonial writing based on the development of the urban in Salman Rushdie's work. Bombay, London, New York and Delhi, cities are central to Salman Rushdie's novels. Reading his urban representations, this stu…
This is a critical framework for reading cities in contemporary and postcolonial writing based on the development of the urban in Salman Rushdie's work. Bombay, London, New York and Delhi, cities are central to Salman Rushdie's novels. Reading his urban representations, this stu…
This book analyses the novels of Salman Rushdie and their stylistic conventions in the context of Indian popular cinema and its role in the elaboration of the author's arguments about post-independence postcolonial India. Focusing on different genres of Indian popular cinema, su…