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, Sawhney applies Georg Lukacs's and Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of the novel to The Satanic Verses and discusses Rushdie's book as a hybrid of the novel genre....
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In the following essay, Davies identifies and discusses aspects of the grotesque in The Satanic Verses.
One way of addressing the vexed problem of defining the grotesque would be to consider it, as...
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In the following essay, Kuortti underscores the significance of language—particularly the power of naming—in The Satanic Verses.
Jean-François Lyotard, in establishing clear di...
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Teaching The Satanic Verses
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The Satanic Verses Lesson Plans contain 125 pages of teaching material, including:
Salman Rushdie
(Ahmed) Salman Rushdie
Critical Essay by Simona Sawhney
