Salman Rushdie: Contemporary Critical Perspectives

Sir Salman Rushdie is perhaps the most significant living novelist in English. His second novel, Midnight's Children , is regularly cited as the 'Booker of Bookers' and its impact is still being felt throughout in world literature. His fourth novel, The Satanic Verses , led to the 'Rushdie Affair' certainly the most significant literary-political event since the Second World War. Rushdie has continued to produce challenging fiction, controversial, thought-provoking non-fiction and has a presence on the world stage as a public intellectual. This collection brings together leading scholars to provide an up-to-date critical guide to Rushdie's writing from his earliest works up to the most recent, including his 2012 memoir of his time in hiding, Joseph Anton . Contributors offer new perspectives on key issues, including: Rushdie as a postcolonial writer; Rushdie as a postmodernist; his use and reuse of the canon; the 'Rushdie Affair'; his responses to 9/11 and to the 'War on Terror'; and issues of more complex philosophical weight arising from his fiction.

• Format: DVD
• Language: English
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
• Number of Disks: 1
• Other Video Info: Paperback
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 9.3"