Reading Rushdie: Perspectives on the Fiction of Salman Rushdie

235 Pages·1994·49.756 MB·English

by  M. D. Fletcher

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Cover Illustration: Lord of the Dance, (bronze; private collection)
Typography and layout: Gordon Collier
ISBN: 90-5183-742-9 (bound)
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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INTRODUCTION : The Politics of Salman Rushdie 's Fiction
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Grimus
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The Flight from the Enchanter: Reflections
on Salman Rushdie's Grimus
1B JOHANSEN ____ _____ _ _________ 23
New Dimensions Courtesy of the Whirling Demons:
Word-Play in Grimus
UMA PARAMESWARAN - - - - - - - - - - - - -- -- - 35
"Rehearsing Voices": Salman Rushdie's Grimus
CATHERINE CUNDY - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - 45
Midnight 's Children
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Midnight 's Children and Reader Responsibility
KEITH WILSON 55
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The Art of Suspense: Rushdie's 1001 (Mid-) Nights
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NANCY BATTY 69
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Saleem Fathered by Oscar: lntertextual Strategies
in Midnight's Children and The Tin Drum
PATRICIA MERIV ALE - - - - -- - -- - - -- - - - - 83
Shame
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Rushdie's Shame as Apologue
M . D . 97
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Sha me' s Holy Book
TIMOTHY BRE N NAN - - - -- - -- - - - - - - - - - 109
Salman Rushdie: Marginality, Women, and Shame
INDERPAL GREWAL 123
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The Politics of Post-Colonial Identity in Salman Rushdie
ANURADHA 0INGWANEY NEEDHAM 145
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Rushdie's Whale
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RUSTOM BHARUCHA - - - - -- -- - - - - - - -- -
Salma n Rushdie's Novels:
The Disorder in Fantastic Order
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PETER BRIGG - -- - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - -
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"Being God's Postman is no Fun, Yaar"
SRINIVAS ARAVAMUDAN _____________ __ 187
Language is Courage
JA CQUELINE BARDOLPH ______ _________ 209
Contraband Histories: Salman Rushdie and
the Embodiment of Blasphemy
S A RA SU LERI __________ _ ___ _ ____ 221
Beauty and the Beast Dualism as Despotism
in the Fiction of Salman Rushdie
M . KEITH BOOKER - -- -- - - -- - -- 237
The Importance of Being Earnest About Salman Rushdie
SADIK JALAL rAL-AZM _______________ 255
A Multitude of Voices: Camivalization and Dialogicality
in the Novels of Salman Rushdie
PHILIP ENGBLOM 293
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Salma n Rushdie's Philosophical Materialism
in The Satanic Verses
PIERRE FRAN~OIS _________________ 305
The Satanic Verses and the Politics of Identity
PETER JONES ___________________ 321
Haroun and the Sea of Stories
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Through Childhood's Window:
Haroun and the Sea of Stories
CA THERINE C U NDY - - - - - - - - -- -- - - - - - 335
"The Gardener of Stories": Salman Rushdie's
Haroun and the Sea of Stories
JEAN- PIERRE bURIX ____________ ___ _ 343
APPENDIX 353
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ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY 361
INDEX TO BIBLIOGRAPHY 397
CONTRIBUTORS 399
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
First, I am pleased to acknowledge the assistance of Alison Kessels, Tony
Bunney, Sue Gordon and particularly Karen Davis, who converted disparate
articles and my hand-writing into typed copy, and to Peter Chapman for proof
reading.
I would also like to thank the series editors Hena Maes-Jelinek, for her
encouragement, and Gordon Collier, for assistance well beyond the call of duty.
Lastly, acknowledgement of copyright is due and required to a number of
journals and presses, many of whom were kind enough to recognize the academic
nature of this project in setting their reprint fees:
Affiliated East- West Press: - Uma Parameswaran, "New Dimensions Courtesy of the Whirl
ing Demons," from Uma Parameswaran, Tiie Perforated Sheet (1988): 55-66;
ARIEL: A Review ofI nternational English Literature, Board of Governors University of Calgary
and the authors: - Nancy E. Batty, "The Art of Suspense," ARIEL 18.3 ( 1987): 49-65; Patricia
Meri vale, "Saleem Fathered by Oscar," ARIEL 21.3 ( I 990): 5-21;
E.J. Brill (Leiden), publishers of Die Welt des /slams: lnternationale Zeitschrift fur die C,eschichte
des /slams in der Neuuit (Oriental Seminar, Bonn University): - Sadik Jalal al-0Azm, "The
Importance of Being Earnest About Salman Rushdie," Die Welt des /slams 31.1 ( 1991 ): 1-49;
Commonrvealth Essays & Studies: - Jacqueline Bardolph, "Language is Courage," Common
rvealth Essays & Essays 12.1 ( 1989): 1-10;
Johns Hopkins University Press: - M. Keith Booker, "Beauty and the Beast," English Literary
History 57 (1990): 977- 97; Srinivas Aravarnudan, '"Being God's Postman is no Fun, Yaar',"
DiJJcritics 19.2 ( 1989): 3-20;
The Journal ofCommonu,ealth Literature: - Catherine Cundy, '"Rehearsing Voices'." ]CL 27.I
(1992): 128-38; Jean-Pierre Durix, '"The Gardener of Stories'," ]CL 29.1 (1993): 114-22;
M.D. Fletcher, "Rushdie's Shame as Apologue." /CL 21.1 ( 1986): I 20-32 (permission also from
University Press of America publishers of my Contemporary Political Satire, 1986, of which an
approximation of this article constituted Chapter 5);
The Journal of Indian Writing in English: - Timothy Brennan, "Shame's Holy Book," Journal of
Indian Writing in English 16.2 ( 1988): 210-27; M.D. Fletcher, earlier versions of the Annotated
Bibliography printed here;
Kunapipi: - lb Johansen. "Flight from the Enchanter," Kunapipi 7.1 ( 1985): 20-32;
The Massachusetts Revietv 0: - Rustom Bharucha, "Rushdie's Whale," The Massachusetts
Revietv 27.2 (1986): 221-37; Anuradha Dingwaney Needham, "The Politics of Post-Colonial
Identity in Salman Rushdie," TIU! Massachusetts Revietv 29.4 (1988/89): 609- 24;
University of Texas Press: - "Salman Rushdie: Marginality, Women and Shame" by lnderpal
Grewal. in C,enders (Boulder CO) 3 (November 1988): 24-42;
Keith Wilson: - Keith Wilson, "Midnight·s Children and Reader Responsibility," Critical
Quarterly 26.3 ( 1984): 23-37;
World Literature Written in English: - Peter Brigg, "Salman Rushdie's Novels," World
literature Written in English 27. I ( I 987): 99-130;
The Yale Review: - Sara Suleri, "Contraband Histories," The Yale Revierv 78.4 ( 1990): 604-24 .
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