Salman Rushdie

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Salman Rushdie

Literature: history and criticism Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

Author: Andrew Teverson

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Collection: Contemporary World Writers

Language: English

Published by: Manchester University Press

Published on: 19th July 2013

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 2 Mb

ISBN: 9781847796219


About the Author

Salman Rushdie is one of the world’s most important writers of politicised fiction. He is a self-proclaimed controversialist, capable of exciting radically divergent viewpoints, a novelist of extraordinary imaginative range and power, and an erudite, and often fearless, commentator upon the state of global politics today.

Book Overview

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. Teverson also offers detailed critical readings of all Rushdie’s novels, from Grimus through to Shalimar the Clown.

Target Audience

This definitive guide will be of interest to those working in the fields of contemporary world writing in English, postcolonial studies, twentieth and twenty-first century British literatures, and studies in the novel.

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