Fiction after the Fatwa : : Salman Rushdie and the Charm of Catastrophe / / Madelena Gonzalez.
Fiction after the Fatwa: Salman Rushdie and the Charm of Catastrophe proposes for the first time an examination of what Rushdie has achieved as a writer since the fourteenth of February 1989, the date of the fatwa. This study argues that his constant questioning of fictional form and the language us...
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| Superior document: | Costerus New Series ; 153 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden;, Boston : : BRILL,, 2004. |
| Year of Publication: | 2004 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Costerus New Series ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (270 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Fiction after the Fatwa
- 2. Haroun and the Sea of Stories: "The Uses of Enchantment"
- 3. East, West: The Dislocation of Culture
- 4. The Moor's Last Sigh: Escaping Identity, Marginal Alternatives, The Inferno of Language
- 5. The Ground Beneath Her Feet: Postmodern Baroque, Reflections on Truth
- 6. Fury: Devoured by Pop
- 7. Afterword: The Charm of Catastrophe
- 8. Appendix: Plot Summaries
- 9. Select Bibliography
- 10. Index.