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Salman Rushdie

✍ Scribed by Andrew Teverson

Publisher
Manchester University Press
Year
2013
Tongue
English
Leaves
278
Series
Contemporary World Writers
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

In this comprehensive and lucid critical study, Andrew Teverson 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 surround the life and work of this major contemporary figure.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter
About the Author
Dedication
Epigraph
Contents
Series editor’s foreword
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Chronology
Contexts and intertexts
Introduction
Political and intellectual contexts
Writing in English
Intertextuality, influence and the postmodern
Biographical contexts
Novels and criticism
From science fiction to history
Tragedy in Shame
Satire in The Satanic Verses
Pessoptimistic fictions
The pop novel in the age of globalisation
Critical overview and conclusion
Afterword
Notes
Select bibliography
Index

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