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  • © 1998

Salman Rushdie

Authors:

  1. D. C. R. A. Goonetilleke
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  • The controversial Rushdie is increasingly read and now widely studied, but there is little other critical work available
    The study focuses on each of the major works, placing it in historical, political, literary and biographical contexts
    Goonetilleke has unique experience of the cultural background to Rushdie's novels

Part of the book series: Palgrave Modern Novelists Series (PMN)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Early Life and Early Works

    • D. C. R. A. Goonetilleke
    Pages 1-15

  3. Midnight’s Children

    • D. C. R. A. Goonetilleke
    Pages 16-45

  4. Shame

    • D. C. R. A. Goonetilleke
    Pages 46-67

  5. The Jaguar Smile and The Satanic Verses

    • D. C. R. A. Goonetilleke
    Pages 68-106

  6. Haroun and the Sea of Stories

    • D. C. R. A. Goonetilleke
    Pages 107-123

  7. East, West

    • D. C. R. A. Goonetilleke
    Pages 124-132

  8. The Moor’s Last Sigh

    • D. C. R. A. Goonetilleke
    Pages 133-147

  9. Conclusion

    • D. C. R. A. Goonetilleke
    Pages 148-150

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 151-168
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About this book

In this valuable study of Salman Rushdie, currently the world's most controversial writer, Professor Goonetilleke examines 'the Rushdie affair', but his focus is on Rushdie as a novelist. He considers Rushdie's fiction as art, tracing the collage of autobiographical and historical elements and analyses Rushdie's complex position as a migrant writer, drawing on the cultural riches of two hemispheres while not belonging fully to either. Rushdie emerges as the most important and innovative novelist in English since World War II.
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About the author

D. C. R. A. GOONETILLEKE is Professor of English, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka and, until 1997, Chairperson of the Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies and Vice-President of the Federation Internationale des Langues et Literatures Modernes. His other publications include Developing Countries in British Fiction, Images of the Raj and Joseph Conrad and he has edited Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness, The Penguin New Writing in Sri Lanka and The Penguin Book of Modern Sri Lankan Stories.
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