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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Critical Essay by Blake Morrison
'Shame' begins deceptively, not as a political allegory but with a miraculous birth, as if we were to have the fabulism of 'Midnight's Chi...
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Critical Essay by Timothy Hyman
Shame stands to Midnight's Children very much as Pakistan to India; a smaller book for a meaner world. To embody a nation in a book, yes; but the kind of book c...
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Critical Essay by Margo Jefferson
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...
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Critical Essay by Christopher Lehmann-haupt
If Mr. Rushdie had followed [the logic of realistic psychology] in "Shame," he would have robbed his novel of its spectral magic, its breakdo...
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Critical Essay by Una Chaudhuri
Shame has as vast and exotic a cast of characters as Midnight's Children, and it is as rich in incident, yet it is a wholly different sort of book. History here...
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Critical Essay by Leon Wieseltier
When Midnight's Children appeared a few years ago, Salman Rushdie was "admitted to the ranks," as critics say, of the world's great write...
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Critical Essay by D. J. Enright
[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 p...
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Critical Essay by Michael Gorra
Shame is in some small degree a roman à clef about the relationship between Pakistan's last two dictators, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and General Zia ul-Haq, bu...
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In the following essay, Ben-Yishai discusses the duality in Rushdie's metanarrative approach to his subject material in Shame.
I had thought, before I began, that what I had on my hands was ...
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Teaching Shame
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Melbourne (dpa) - Shamed Ukrainian coach Mykhaylo Zubkov, who was
shown worldwide assaulting his 18-year-old daughter at the world
swimming championships, has been banned fr...
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"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...
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Jeff 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...
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A fan is shot to death by police in Paris. A police officer dies during riots at a game in Sicily. Players are threatened with fake pistols in Germany and soccer violence plagues the sport in South...
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The reaction to the Virginia Tech massacre in the nation where the shooter was born has been an outpouring of sympathy mixed with feelings of shame. There are also concerns that going too far in ap...
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Dishonoring Heroes: Memorial Day is supposed to be above politics, a holiday dedicated to those who gave their lives for freedom. Now, thanks to opportunistic politicians, we can't even honor our w...
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While the natural human fascination with gossip and backbiting among our rulers guarantees media coverage and best-seller status for George Tenet’s new memoir, the former C.I.A. director cann...
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Thai police officers who break rules will be forced to wear hot pink armbands featuring "Hello Kitty," the Japanese icon of cute, as a mark of shame, a senior officer said Monday.Police officers ca...
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Salman Rushdie
(Ahmed) Salman Rushdie
Critical Essay by Blake Morrison
FINA bans shamed coach indefinitely
