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The Indian/British author Ahmed Salman Rushdie (born 1947) was a political parablist whose work often focused on outrages of history and particularly of religions. His book The Satanic Verses earned h...
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Salman Rushdie embodies in his own life and in his writings the conundrums of the postcolonial author, writing within the tradition of Indo-English literature while simultaneously appealing to the con...
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In the following essay, D'Haen defines the origins of magical realism and postmodernism in literature, examining the use of the former in the works of Salman Rushdie and Angela Carter. D'...
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In the following essay, Teverson explores Salman Rushdie's Haroun and the Sea of Stories as “a complex allegory that emphasizes the importance of exchange between different cultural grou...
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Critical Essay by David Wilson
The novel as global metaphor is currently unfashionable, except when it comes in the guise of science fiction or political satire. Grimus is neither of these, though it ...
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Critical Essay by Kirkus Reviews
The hero of [the] intricately plotted [Grimus] is Flapping Eagle, an outcast Indian weary of the immortality conferred on him some 700 years ago by a mysterious elixir...
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Critical Essay by Publishers Weekly
[The characters and plot elements of Grimus] comprise a pretty flashy bunch of ingredients which could easily have yielded silly melodrama. In this artful first nov...
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Critical Essay by Salman Rushdie (interview with Michael T. Kaufman)
[Michael T. Kaufman]: How would you characterize the political position, or rather, the political lament, of your novels about Indi...
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In the following essay, Cook finds Rushdie's central contribution to contemporary literature to be his exploration of cultural change and transformation.
In a “century of wanderingȁ...
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In the following essay, Sawhney and Sawhney investigate how Rushdie's political essays changed after the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001, and discuss the shifting c...
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In the following review, Edric maintains that “the real problem with Fury lies not so much with its absurd and near non-existent plot or with its failure to deliver, but with the writing itself...
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In the following review, Siegel identifies Saul Bellow's Mr. Sammler's Planet and F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby as textual inspirations for Rushdie's Fury.
Art cri...
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In the following favorable review, Rubin asserts that Fury is “an acrid, sharp, self-critical portrait of an angry man in an anger-inducing world.”
Salman Rushdie's latest novel [...
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In the following review, Wood finds Fury to be a pretentious, outdated apologia.
Fury exhausts all negative superlatives. It is a novel that is indeed likely to make even its most charitable readers f...
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In the following essay, Clark explores Rushdie's extensive use of other worlds in his novels, commenting that “Rushdie's fiction can be especially disconcerting to those who belie...
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In the following essay, Almond examines Rushdie's portrayal of Islam throughout his body of work.
One Kashmiri morning in the early spring of 1915, my grandfather Aadam Aziz hit his nose agains...
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In the following review, Joshi offers a mixed assessment of the essays collected in Step across This Line.
Is it cruel for an author to have to carry on well after he or she has run out of stories to ...
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In the following essay, Shankar explores contemporary Indian literature, noting Rushdie's role as a postcolonial Indian author and utilizing Rushdie's commentary and critiques on postcol...
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In the following review, Lahr regards The Wizard of Oz to be a “shrewd and joyous assessment of a film that has played such a large part in the imaginative landscape of America, and in [Rushdie...
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In the following essay, Cook considers the theme of cultural displacement in Rushdie's work, noting that “all of Rushdie's novels can be read as an acknowledgment that reality tak...
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Salman Rushdie
(Ahmed) Salman Rushdie
Critical Essay by Theo L. D'Haen
