Salman Rushdie in Context

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-1-316-51414-6
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 414 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 767 g

Reihe: Literature in Context

Salman Rushdie in Context discusses Rushdie's life and work in the context of the multiple geographies he has inhabited and the wider socio-cultural contexts in which his writing is emerging, published and read. This book reveals the evolving political trajectory around transnationalism, multiculturalism and its discontents, so prominently engaged with by Salman Rushdie in relation to South Asia, its diasporas, Britain, and the USA in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. Focused on the aesthetic, biographical, cultural, creative, historical and literary contexts of his works, the book reveals his deep engagement with processes of decolonization, emergent nationalisms in South Asia, Europe and the USA, and diasporic identity constructions and how they have been affected by globalisation. The book traces how, through his fiction and non-fiction, Rushdie has profoundly shaped the discussion of important questions of global citizenship and migration that continue to resonate today.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stadtler, Florian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Rushdie's contexts – contextualizing Rushdie Florian Stadtler; Part I. Life: 1. Salman Rushdie, biography and autobiography Pavan Kumar Malreddy; 2. Salman Rushdie and the Fatwa Anshuman A. Mondal; 3. Archival Rushdie Sam Goodman; 4. Salman Rushdie as public intellectual Ruvani Ranasinha; Part II. Literary and Creative Contexts: 5. Salman Rushdie and the Urdu tradition Amina Yaqin; 6. Art-historical magic realism and Rushdie's twenty-first century politics Felicity Gee; 7. Salman Rushdie and intertextuality Joel Kuortti; 8. Salman Rushdie and visual art and culture Ana Cristina Mendes; 9. Rushdie, sound and the auditory imagination Daniel O'Gorman; Part III. Historical and Cultural Contexts: 10. Salman Rushdie and history Wendy Singer; 11. Religious and ideological mythologies in Salman Rushdie's novels Manav Ratti; 12. Revisiting the city in Rushdie's fiction Stuti Khanna; 13. Nationalism and transnationalism in Salman Rushdie's novels Birte Heidemann; 14. Rushdie and globalization Ágnes Györke; 15. Salman Rushdie and diasporic identities Jenni Ramone; 16 Rushdie and secularism Florian Stadtler; 17. Orientalism, terrorism and counterinsurgency in Salman Rushdie's novels Stephen Morton; 18 Salman Rushdie's upwardly mobile, globally migrating middle classes Nilufer E. Bharucha; 19. Scheherazade and her cousins: Rushdie's women handcuffed to contexts Feroza Jussawalla; 20. Filmi contexts: Rushdie and cinema Florian Stadtler; 21. Salman Rushdie and world-historical capitalism Treasa De Loughry; 22. The Anthropocene and ecological limits in the works of Salman Rushdie Robert P. Marzec; Part IV. Critical Theoretical Contexts: 23. Salman Rushdie and postcolonialism Harish Trivedi; 24. Salman Rushdie and cosmopolitanism John Clement Ball; 25 Salman Rushdie and postmodernism Peter Morey; Part V. Reception, Criticism and Adaption: 26. Salman Rushdie's audiences, reception and the literary market Ursula Kluwick; 27. Adapting Rushdie: radio, screen and stage Florian Stadtler.

Über Autor(innen)

Stadtler, Florian
Florian Stadtler is Lecturer in Literature and Migration at the University of Bristol. His monograph Fiction, Film, and Indian Popular Cinema: Salman Rushdie's Novels and the Cinematic Imagination (2014) is published by Routledge. He was the Reviews Editor of Wasafiri: The Magazine of International Contemporary Writing from 2010–22 and is now a trustee.