SOURCE: "Satanic Verses: Imagination and Its Political Context," in Cross Currents, Dobbs Ferry, Vol. XXXIX, No. 2, Summer, 1989, pp. 204-13.
In the following essay, Dossa explains the tension between Western postmodern ideals of freedom—which, he argues, are infused with a rigid and imperialist misunderstanding of other cultures—and traditional "third-world" cultures and argues that Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses relies on both medieval and postmodern European and American stereotypes of Islam, offering no alternatives to the society he criticizes.
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