Salman Rushdie: Fictions of Postcolonial Modernity

by Stephen Morton

Overview

This introduction places the fiction of Salman Rushdie in a clear historical and theoretical context. Morton explores Rushdie's biography, the histories that inform his major works and his relevance to contemporary culture. Including a timeline of key dates, this study offers an overview of the varied critical reception Rushdie's work has provoked

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781350309081
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	11/18/2007
Series:	New British Fiction
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	200
File size:	750 KB

About the Author

STEPHEN MORTON is Lecturer in Anglophone Literature and Culture at the University of Southampton, UK. He has taught Rushdie in the UK and in Finland and is author of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Routledge 2002).

Table of Contents

General Editors Preface
Acknowledgments
PART 1: INTRODUCTION
Timeline
Introduction
Author Biography
PART 2: MAJOR WORKS
Midnight's Children and Shame
The Satanic Verses, Haroun and the Sea of Stories and East, West
The Moor's Last Sigh
Shalimar the Clown
PART 3: CRITICISM AND CONTEXTS
Rushdie's Non-fiction
Rushdie in Question: The Critical Reception
Annotated Further Reading and Bibliography.