Stephen Morton

Salman Rushdie (eBook, PDF)

Fictions of Postcolonial Modernity

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This introduction places the fiction of Salman Rushdie in a clear historical and theoretical context. Morton explores Rushdie's biography, the histories that inform his major works and his relevance to contemporary culture. Including a timeline of key dates, this study offers an overview of the varied critical reception Rushdie's work has provoked

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. November 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781137104465
• Artikelnr.: 62860790

Autorenporträt

STEPHEN MORTON is Lecturer in Anglophone Literature and Culture at the University of Southampton, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

General Editors Preface.- Acknowledgments.- PART 1: INTRODUCTION.- Timeline.- Introduction.- Author Biography.- PART 2: MAJOR WORKS.- Midnight's Children and Shame .- The Satanic Verses, Haroun and the Sea of Stories and East, West .- The Moor's Last Sigh.- Shalimar the Clown .- PART 3: CRITICISM AND CONTEXTS.- Rushdie's Non-fiction.- Rushdie in Question: The Critical Reception.- Annotated Further Reading and Bibliography.