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Shame by Salman Rushdie | |
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About 166 pages (49,646 words) in 13 products |
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Salman Rushdie | | Variant Name: |
Ahmed Salman Rushdie | | Birth Date: |
June 19, 1947 | | Place of Birth: |
Bombay, India | | Nationality: |
Indian | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
writer |
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 Biography of (Ahmed) Salman Rushdie
7076 words, approx. 23.6 pages
 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 conventions and tastes of a worldwide, especially Western... summary from source:
 Biography of Salman Rushdie
1592 words, approx. 5.3 pages
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 him a death sentence from the Iranian Ayatollah Ruholla...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Shame Information
356 words, approx. 1 pages
 Shame was Salman Rushdie's third novel, at 300 pages. The theme of the novel is Pakistan. Rushdie wrote this after his Midnight's Children, whose theme was the independence — and partition — of India. Roughly speaking, Shame is a novel about...
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 The Washington Post No Shame
08/01/1995: 797 words, approx. 3 pages One summer when I was in college, I worked in a Los Angeles liquor store. Its owner was named Sam -- a good man in what he thought was a lousy business. Every morning just before opening time, alcoholics would line up outside the... summary from source:
The Washington Post Shame
02/08/1992: 592 words, approx. 2 pages The mainstream press should hang its head in shame over the depths to which its standards have plunged in covering the Bill Clinton affair. For the sake of voyeurism, pure and simple, with no regard for the story's relevance to the candidacy, the press... summary from source:
 The New York Observer Connor: "A Nasty, Shameful Campaign"
9/11/2006: 493 words, approx. 2 pages"Oh certainly, I will spend somewhere between $180,000-200,000 dollars, which to me is a lot of money for a state Senate primary," he said this afternoon in a phone interview in which he called his opponent's campaign literature a series of "gross distortions" of his... summary from source:
AP News Column: Shameful display at Talladega
4/30/2007: 743 words, approx. 3 pagesJeff Foxworthy has made a very good living by defining, for laughs, what makes someone a redneck. Foxworthy was the Grand Marshall for Sunday's NASCAR Nextel Cup race at Talladega Superspeedway and he said he felt right in his element. "If I spent two days...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Ayelet Ben-Yishai
8,333 words, approx. 28 pages
In the following essay, Ben-Yishai discusses the duality in Rushdie's metanarrative approach to his subject material in Shame.
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Critical Essay by Margo Jefferson
1,810 words, approx. 6 pages
Rushdie, born in India, moved first to Pakistan and then to England. In life he is a migrant and exile, in fiction a fantasist and historian. He's a wonderful writer. Midnight's Children, published in 1981, is dense with passion, intelligence, excitement, and every vocal and literary effect conceivable. Shame, his new novel, is also brilliant and risky—not so steadily dazzling, more raw in parts, but just as daring. The rawness is there because Rushdie is always testing the tenets of hi... summary from source:
Critical Essay by D. J. Enright
1,576 words, approx. 5 pages
[Shame has] all the welcomed virtues of Midnight's Children, and most of the vices (peculiarly hard though these are, in a work whose "logic" is partly that of the fairy tale, partly that of the nightmare, to separate from the virtues), and it possesses an extra virtue. It is considerably shorter—which, in a writer whose riches are embarrassing, can well indicate a firmer control. Shame is often exasperating, in the way of Günter Grass's best novels, but never (or s...
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Shame by Salman Rushdie | |
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