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Salman Rushdie
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Hardback. Series: Salman Rushdie. Num Pages: 154 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 168 x 15. Weight in Grams: 426.
This is a close textual analysis of Rushdie’s five major novels: Midnight’s Children, Shame, The Satanic Verses, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, and The Moor’s Last Sigh. Rushdie recognizes that practicing identity politics leads to nativism and nationalism, categories he rejects because they merely invert the colonizer/colonized binary, leaving violent hierarchies intact. His impulse is to deconstruct the colonizer/colonized binary and in doing so to clear a `new’ postmodern space. This text employs post-structuralist/ postmodern theory not only to address the issues of representation that Rushdie raises in his major political novels, but also to facilitate a discussion of ... Read more
This is a close textual analysis of Rushdie’s five major novels: Midnight’s Children, Shame, The Satanic Verses, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, and The Moor’s Last Sigh. Rushdie recognizes that practicing identity politics leads to nativism and nationalism, categories he rejects because they merely invert the colonizer/colonized binary, leaving violent hierarchies intact. His impulse is to deconstruct the colonizer/colonized binary and in doing so to clear a `new’ postmodern space. This text employs post-structuralist/ postmodern theory not only to address the issues of representation that Rushdie raises in his major political novels, but also to facilitate a discussion of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
Number of pages
154
Condition
New
Series
Salman Rushdie
Number of Pages
154
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9781611472288
SKU
V9781611472288
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Ref
99-15
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