Offspring fictions : : Salman Rushdie's family novels / / Matt Kimmich.

• Superior document: Costerus ; new series, 177
• Author: Kimmich, Matt.
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam ;, New York, NY : : Rodopi,, 2008.
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Costerus New Series 177.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (265 pages).

Offspring Fictions: Salman Rushdie’s Family Novels is the first book-length study that examines families and especially the parent-child relationship in Rushdie’s core works. It argues that Sigmund Freud’s concept of the family and the author’s variations thereon are central to a full understanding of the four novels Midnight’s Children , Shame , the controversial The Satanic Verses and The Moor’s Last Sigh , a quasi-sequel to Rushdie’s first success. Through close readings that make use of a variety of critical approaches, Offspring Fictions provides a sustained examination of how the parents and children that people Rushdie’s fictions reflect the larger issues his work is concerned with: nationalism, religion, history and authorship. Aimed primarily at academics and students, but also of interest to the general reader, Offspring Fictions provides a clear and insightful analysis of Rushdie’s family tetralogy.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Reading the Novels -- The Child Is Father of the Man: Creating Progeny in Midnight’s Children -- Days Full of Potential Mothers and Possible Fathers: Saleem Sinai’s Multiple Family Romances -- “The Mother-Goddess In Her Most Terrible Aspect”: The Murder of Childhood and Dialogue -- Sins of the Parents: Monstrous Mothers and Absent Fathers -- “Discrete Parameters of a Family Squabble”: Family Antagonisms -- Absent Fathers and Fallen Sons: The Satanic Verses -- “Pleasechu Meechu, Hopeyu Guessma Nayym”: Giving a Voice to Satanic Doubt -- Uprooting the Family Tree: The Moor’s Last Sigh -- Conflicting Parents, Contesting Authors: Who Writes the Moor? -- From Ganesh to Dumbo: The First and the Last of the Family Novels -- Select Bibliography -- Index.