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Lunch With a Bigot: The Writer in the World
By
Amitava Kumar
Amitava Kumar
Amitava Kumar is Helen D. Lockwood Professor of English at Vassar College. He is the author of
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Duke University Press
Copyright:
This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved.
ISBN electronic:
978-0-8223-7539-5
Publication date:
2015
Book Chapter
Salman Rushdie and Me
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Published:April 2015
In 2012, at the Jaipur Literature Festival, the author was asked to leave India after he read from a banned book, Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses. This chapter covers that history but uses it as an occasion to report on his fraught relationship with the celebrated writer—establishing in the process an idea of what it means to celebrate freedom of expression and also be fair in criticism.
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