Salman Rushdie: Second Edition

by D. C. R. A. Goonetilleke

Overview

This updated and expanded new edition reviews Rushdie's novels in the light of recent critical developments. It also features new chapters which examine the author's latest works including Fury (2001), Shalimar the Clown (2005) and The Enchantress of Florence (2008), bringing coverage of this important British author up to the present.
This updated and expanded new edition reviews Rushdie's novels in the light of recent critical developments. It also features new chapters which examine the author's latest works including Fury (2001), Shalimar the Clown (2005) and The Enchantress of Florence (2008), bringing coverage of this important British author up to the present.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781350309098
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	10/21/2009
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
File size:	423 KB

About the Author

D.C.R.A.GOONETILLEKE is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Chronology
Early Life and Early Works
Midnights Children
Shame
The Jaguar Smile and The Satanic Verses
Haroun and the Sea of Stories
East, West
The Moors Last Sigh
The Ground Beneath Her Feet
Fury
Shalimar the Clown
The Enchantress of Florence
Conclusion
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index.

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From the Publisher

'A valuable and thorough reading of a major contemporary novelist's writing'- Professor Randy Boyagoda, Ryerson University, Canada

Editorial Reviews

Goonetilleke (English, U. of Keleniya, Sri Lanka) focuses on the Indian-born British writer as a novelist, but does place his work within the context of The Rushdie Affair in which he was sentenced to death by Iranian officials for his novel The Satanic Verses. He traces the autobiographical and historical elements of the fiction and analyzes Rushdie's position as a migrant writer able to draw on two cultures without belonging fully to either. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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A valuable and thorough reading of a major contemporary novelists writing - Professor Randy Boyagoda, Ryerson University, Canada

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