Salman Rushdie in Context

This book is an interdisciplinary edited collection focused on the biographical, cultural, creative, historical and literary contexts of Salman Rushdie.

Florian Stadtler (Edited by)

9781316514146, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 30 March 2023

414 pages
23.5 x 15.5 x 2.9 cm, 0.732 kg

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.

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.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB]