Salman Rushdie Contemporary Critical Perspectives

Sir Salman Rushdie is perhaps the most significant living novelist in English. His second novel,Midnight's Children, is regularly cited as the 'Booker of Bookers' and its impact is still being felt in world literature. His fourth novel,The Satanic Verses, is a very major, possibly epoch-defining work, which led to the 'Rushdie Affair', certainly the most significant literary-political event since the Second World War. Rushdie has continued to produce challenging fiction and controversial, thought-provoking non-fiction, and to be a presence on the world stage as a public intellectual. This collection brings together leading scholars, including Homi Bhabha, to provide an up-to-date critical guide to Rushdie's writing from his earliest works up to the most recent, including his sequel toHaroun and the Sea of Stories. Contributors offer new perspectives on key issues, including: Rushdie as a postcolonial writer; Rushdie as a postmodernist; his use and reuse of the canon; the 'Rushdie Affair'; his responses to 9/11 and to the 'War on Terror'; and issues of more complex philosophical weight arising from his fiction.

Robert Eaglestone is Professor of Contemporary Literature and Thought at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. His previous publications include Doing English: A Guide for Literature Students.

Martin McQuillan is Professor of Literary Theory and Cultural Analysis and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Science at Kingston University, UK, and Co-Director of the London Graduate School.

Foreword Nadeem Aslam \ Series Editors' Preface \ Contributors \ General Introduction Robert Eaglestone and Martin MacQuillan \ 1. Rushdie's Early Fiction and the Rise of Postcolonialism Ellie Byrne \ 2. Revisiting The Satanic Verses: The Fatwa and its Legacies Anshuman Mondal \ 3. Rushdie after 9/11 Martin MacQuillan \ 4. Salman Rushdie and the Post-Colonial Folk and Fairy Tale Andrew Teverson \ 5. Interview: Homi Bhabha with Robert Eaglestone and Martin McQuillan \ 6. Postcolonial Secularism and Literary Form in Salman Rushdie's Fiction Stephen Morton \ 7. The Authentic in Salman Rushdie Robert Eaglestone \ 8. Rushdie Writing and Rewriting the Canon Ankhi Mukerjee \ 9. Rushdie's Non-fiction Daniel O'Gorman \ Further Reading \ Index