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Salman Rushdie:A Postmodern Reading of His Major Works is a close textual analysis of Rushdie’s five major novels:Midnight’s Children, Shame, The Satanic Verses, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, and The Moor’s Last Sigh.It focuses on the manner in which Rushdie is a postmodern writer whose subject is the postcolonial moment and makes the point that unlike many other contemporary subcontinental authors writing in English, Rushdie recognizes that practicing identity politics leads to nativism and nationalism, categories he rejects because they merely invert the colonizer/colonized binary, leaving violent hierarchies intact.His impulse, instead, is to deconstruct the colonizer/colonized binary and in doing so attempt to clear a "new" postmodern space.Hassumani uses poststructural and postmodern theory as a device to access Rushdie’s texts not only to address the issues of representation that Rushdie raises in his major political novels, but also to facilitate a discussion of the manner in which he pushes the boundaries of the modern novel.Specifically, she discusses the manner in which Rushdie responds to the contemporary subcontinental moment from his postmodern angle of vision and identifies and analyzes three of his major ideas via a close reading of his works:historical events are accessible only through interpretation which leads to versions of meanings; exclusively privileging the past, present, or future leads to repression and suppression which results in violence; reality is a construct, and those who survive it well do so due to their ability to bend, be adaptable, and engage with the enabling power of hybridity and intermingling. ... Read more

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Satire plays a prominent and often controversial role in postcolonial fiction. Satire and the Postcolonial Novel offers the first study of this topic, employing the insights of postcolonial comparative theories to revisit Western formulations of "satire" and the "satiric."
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This is a provocative piece of scholarship, and it engages an intriguing aspect of postcolonial writing.-Choice "Fawzia Afzal-Khan's excellent book could stand as a reply to those hostile critics who today attack 'multiculturalism' for reductively politicizing literature. In her trenchant discussion, Afzal-Khan shows just how complex the politics of 'liberation' can be for colonial and postcolonial novelists." -Gerald Graff, University of Chicago"Afzal-Khan's study is a major new contribution to the related fields of Indian writing in English and post-colonial literatures. Focused primarily on four Indian novelists, its arguments and conclusions are of vital importance to our understanding of the many new literatures from the former British colonies. Through her judicious use of the theoretical constructs of Frantz Fanon, Fredric Jameson, Edward Said, and others, Afzal-Khan has produced a fresh and compelling interpretation of the Indian-English novel."-Amritjit Singh, Rhode Island CollegeCultural Imperialism and the Indo-English Novel focuses on the novels of R. K. Narayan, Anita Desai, Kamala Markandaya, and Salman Rushdie and explores the tension in these novels between ideology and the generic fictive strategies that shape ideology or are shaped by it. Fawzia Afzal-Khan raises the important question of how much the usage of certain ideological strategies actually helps the ex-colonized writer deal effectively with post-colonial and post-independence trauma and whether or not the choice of a particular genre or mode employed by a writer presupposes the extent to which that writer will be successful in challenging the ideological strategies of "containment" perpetuated by most Western "orientalist" texts and writers. She argues that the formal or generic choices of the four writers studied here reveal that they are using genre as an ideological "strategy of liberation" to help free their peoples and cultures from the hegemonic strategies of "containment" imposed u ... Read more

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Without some insight into his thinking process, Salman Rushdie's complex novels must remain baffling even to the well-read. This selection of Rushdie interviews, gathered from diverse sources, provides a key to his mind and a gloss to his fiction. The material included here ranges from biographical snippets, through literary explications, to political dicta and historical analyses. Taken together, they make up a psycho-biography of the writer who, in our age, has emerged as the archetype of the romantic artist--tyrannized and tormented, yet refusing to abandon his position or his art. The interviews are accompanied by annotations, and a detailed index locates Rushdie's thoughts on a variety of topics. ... Read more

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Colonial metaphors included such images as bringing "light" to dark, barbaric places; "journeying" to uncharted territories; and "educating" native populations. Such metaphors are politically charged and assume the superiority of the colonizing nation. This book studies how Rushdie, as a postcolonial writer, has reworked and reimagined colonial metaphors in his works. The volume looks at the overarching metaphors of migration, translation, hybridity, blasphemy, and globalization in Rushdie's novels. ... Read more

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Omar Khayyan lleva el nombre de un famoso poeta pero sus peculiares condiciones familiares no favorecen la lirica. Criado por tres madres, encerrado en un palacio inexpugnable durante doce anos, y en la extrana creencia de que su destino es la caida (fisica y espiritual), Omar se erige en el protagonista periferico de una historia que, mas que suya, y pese a los esfuerzos del narrador, se le rebela como la de Pakistan, o la de un pais que se le pareceria mucho. Golpes de estado y tormentas politicas, bodas y amores soterrados hacen entremezclarse dos familias que no pueden aislarse de un mundo de mitos, maldiciones, y mujeres subyugadas que aqui si logran otorgarse un lugar en la Historia. ... Read more

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Oriente, Occidente es un titulo fundamental en la trayectoria de Salman Rushdie. A lo largo de nueve relatos, el autor despliega magistralmente los principales temas y elementos de su universo literario, en particular el encuentro y el desencuentro entre dos culturas radicalmente opuestas pero indisolublemente mestizadas y mezcladas por los vaivenes de la historia. Desde un prestamista que consigue un pelo de la barba del Profeta y se convierte al fundamentalismo hasta una familia india en el Londres de los sesenta agobiada por los contrastes socioculturales, los relatos tocan diversos temas cohesionados por dos hilos secretos: la escurridiza relacion entre ficcion y realidad y la tragicomica dualidad de pertenecer o no pertenecer a una cultura. ... Read more

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