Offspring fictions : : Salman Rushdie's family novels /

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

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...

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Superior document:Costerus ; new series, 177
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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).
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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.

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