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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 189–196.
Published: 01 May 2010
... run counter not only to assumptions that are commonly made in the practice of political criticism of literature, but also to basic features of our ordinary engagement with fictional discourses. The essay then examines the controversy surrounding Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses , a controversy...
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 78–82.
Published: 01 May 2010
... of Solitude and recent novelists who have imitated it, including Salman Rushdie, Michael Chabon, and Jeffrey Eugenides. Linking the extra information this model sentence conveys to the representation of atrocity, it answers Wood's specific charge—that information has taken over from readerly emotion...
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Novel (2011) 44 (2): 208–228.
Published: 01 August 2011
...Janice Ho This essay situates Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses within the historical context of a politics of extremity that was mobilized by ethnic migrants in postwar Britain in their struggles against racism. Such a politics—characterized by the discourses of war, militancy, rioting, and heat...
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Novel (2016) 49 (2): 359–363.
Published: 01 August 2016
... chroniclers of brutality and disconsolation such as J. M. Coetzee. Another of the writers is Salman Rushdie, whose appearance may be predictable in a book concerned with interfaith friction but whose writing warrants renewed attention for the way it treads a complex line between redeeming prospects...
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Novel (2016) 49 (3): 531–533.
Published: 01 November 2016
... or thereabouts, two real, full-grown, living men fell from a great height, twenty-nine thousand and two feet, toward the English Channel, without the benefit of parachutes or wings, out of a clear sky. —Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses (1988) An unforgettable image on the printed page: the plummet...
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Novel (2013) 46 (2): 313–318.
Published: 01 August 2013
... the Acts and Graham Swift’s Waterland, moving through Salman Rushdie’s
postcolonial epic, Midnight’s Children, and finishing with Art Spiegelman’s graphic mem-
oir Maus. While his engagement with the theories of comparativity that have made such
sweeping gestures possible is tacit in the work...
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Novel (1999) 33 (1): 129–133.
Published: 01 May 1999
... (New York: Routledge, 19991, pp. 243,
paper, $24.99.
Salman Rushdie's The Satanzc Verses, a novel that appeared after a decade of Thatcherism,
appeals for a return to Victorian values, and a deluge of English "heritage films" and "Raj
Revivalism," has the distinction of having inaugurated...
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Novel (2007) 40 (3): 329–332.
Published: 01 November 2007
...,
Salman Rushdie, and the gentrification of the London Docklands. Fortunately, this expan-
sive coverage does not come at the cost of cultural or hstorical contextualization. The
book engages with three lustorical phases: the land reform debates during the imperial cri-
sis of the Boer War and World...
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Novel (2017) 50 (3): 329–337.
Published: 01 November 2017
... Keywords . Just as García Márquez and the Latin American Boom mark a start for the current phase of world literature, so Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children (1981) marks the age of postcolonial writing and criticism, all the more since his book's structure makes so much of the magic moment in 1947...
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 400–409.
Published: 01 November 2009
... the independence movement (roughly 1890–1947) and
then a leap over several decades to the post-Rushdie era (1980–present). I suggest
that this selectivity can be read as an indication that the currently dominant post-
colonial literary framework cannot easily accommodate work fueled by concerns
other than...
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Novel (2019) 52 (3): 347–368.
Published: 01 November 2019
... their way into our consciousness” ( Brennan, Salman Rushdie ix ). This is manifested in the meteoric rise of Salman Rushdie as an international writer, which marks an age of postcolonial writing, and in the definition of postcolonialism as an academic field in the mid-1980s. The change in consciousness...
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Novel (2016) 49 (2): 278–294.
Published: 01 August 2016
... ): 91 – 113 . Roy Arundhati . The Cost of Living . New York : Modern Library , 1999 . Roy Arundhati . The God of Small Things . New York : Random House , 1997 . Rushdie Salman . Midnight’s Children . New York : Avon Books , 1980 . Rutz Henry J...
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Novel (2000) 33 (3): 281–306.
Published: 01 November 2000
...: Verso, 1987 . Morrison , Toni . Jazz . New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992 . Poe , Edgar Allan . The Complete Tales and Poems . Ed. Hervey Allen. New York: Modern Library, 1938 . Rushdie , Salman . Shame . New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983 . Toer , Pramoedya Ananta...
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Novel (2017) 50 (2): 288–290.
Published: 01 August 2017
... relationship between English and the vernacular languages of the subcontinent, specifically Urdu. He undertakes a close reading of Salman Rushdie and Mulk Raj Anand that shows how the global English of their novels is mediated by its relationship to Urdu, such that the subaltern figures of their fiction speak...
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Novel (2015) 48 (3): 502–504.
Published: 01 November 2015
..., the House Un-American Committee of the 1950s—the pulse of politics and history is not a strong one, especially if one stops to consider other types of censorship, perhaps the censorship of the market or the censorship of a religious fatwa, which puts an artist like Salmon Rushdie under a death threat. Does...
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Novel (2010) 43 (2): 340–342.
Published: 01 August 2010
... transnational definition of early twentieth-century modernism. The structure of
Cosmopolitan Style reproduces a split between the first and second halves of the century—
the opening section treats the fiction of Conrad, Joyce, and Woolf, while the concluding
portion considers prose by Ishiguro, Rushdie...
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Novel (2011) 44 (1): 23–26.
Published: 01 May 2011
...John Plotz © 2011 by Novel, Inc. 2011 Duke University Press Works Cited Dickens Charles . Our Mutual Friend . Introduction by Gaughan Richard . New York : Random House , 2002 . Rushdie Salman . Midnight's Children . New York : Penguin , 1991...
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Novel (2019) 52 (2): 326–329.
Published: 01 August 2019
... intersperses theoretical discussions of a topos with close readings of selected novels. For example, in the first section, Ganguly reads David Mitchell's 1999 Ghostwritten and Salman Rushdie's 2005 Shalimar the Clown to illustrate her claims concerning a new configuration of a world marked by “neoliberal...
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Novel (2011) 44 (1): 131–134.
Published: 01 May 2011
... literature witnessed a proliferation of novels on slavery, a subgenre Ber-
nard Bell describes as the neo-slave narrative. While such early scholarship on African
American fiction of slavery as Ashraf Rushdy’s Neo-slave Narratives and Arlene Keizer’s
Black Subjects featured historiographic...
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Novel (2021) 54 (1): 136–139.
Published: 01 May 2021
...). The first chapter in this section covers three novels about different aspects of the division of the Indian subcontinent into India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and (of course inconclusively) Kashmir. Eide's main texts here span almost forty years: Salman Rushdie's classic Midnight's Children , Bapsi Sidhwa's...
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