...Lindon Barrett By Asraf Rushdy. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 1999. 232 pp. Cloth, $45.00;paper, $17.95. 2000 888 American Literature as they are unable to withstand the race-specific discourses that trigger in...

... dialogue with the contemporary politics of the seventies and eighties’’ (228). Thus, Rushdy pursues intertextuality as a historically embedded, rather than an ahistorical theoretical, principle. In close detail, he...

...: Studies in the Social Logic of a Literary Form. By Asraf Rushdy. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 1999. 232 pp. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $17.95. In this insistently historicist study, Asraf Rushdy examines the recent literary...

... antipornography movement associated with Catherine MacKinnon, the fatwa against Salman Rushdie, the ‘‘political correctness’’ controversy in higher edu- cation, and the Paul de Man scandal. The Mapplethorpe trial establishes the...

...Claire F. Fox Duke University Press 2004 Claire F. Comparative Literary Studies of the Americas Fox Postethnic Narrative Criticism: Magicorealism in Oscar ‘‘Zeta’’ Acosta, Ana Cas- tillo, Julie Dash, Hanif Kureishi, and Salman Rushdie. By Frederick Luis Aldama. Austin: Univ. of...

... ‘‘What are we but Empire’s children? British have given us everythingisn’t it—Civilisation, law, order, too much Salman Rushdie, The Moor’s Last Sigh We are...

.... As Ashraf Rushdy argues, the fact that the novel begins with Raven’s first-person meditation and then abruptly switches into the third-person account of an omniscient narrator suggests that the structure of Flight to Canada is Reed’s enactment of Voodoo’s most basic practice, the act of spirit...

... (148). Salman Rushdie, writing with knowledge of political strife in India, engages the child in Midnight’s Children (1980) to celebrate memory as a staged resistance to the forces of oppression. And Toni Morrison, in Beloved...

... antipornography movement associated with Catherine MacKinnon, the fatwa against Salman Rushdie, the ‘‘political correctness’’ controversy in higher edu- cation, and the Paul de Man scandal. The Mapplethorpe trial establishes the...

.... Press, 1998). 7 Some have also suggested that better novels will simply emerge with time. This position is articulated by Paul Auster and Salman Rushdie in a 2002 National Public Radio interview (Linda Wertheimer, “Paul Auster and Salman Rushdie Discuss Reimagining the...

... dispositions of such authors can range from a sense of liberation to a sense of loss. Here, authors such as Gloria Anzaldúa, Salman Rushdie, and Ngúgì Wa Thiog’o ponder the motivations and ramifications of their...

... (2002), all of which take a pointedly corrective approach to the historical record of slavery. But even this literary project attests to something other than repression of the past. As Ashraf Rushdy shows in his study of neoslave narratives, the post-1970s literary interest in slavery...

... literary theorists of language and subjectivity, including de Man, Perloff, Greenblatt, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Derrida, juxtaposing their work with the literary contributions of writers like Beckett, Chaudhuri, Merrill, Proust, Rushdie, and Updike. Farrell examines fields of literary inquiry such as...