Salman Rushdie, 'Quichotte: A Novel'

Memorials to Modernity: Postcolonial Pilgrimage in Naipaul and Rushdie

10 . The Satanic Verses and the Demonic Text

In his essay “In Good Faith” (1990), Salman Rushdie discusses the reactions his novel, The Satanic Verses (1988; “SV”) has evoked around the world. According to Rushdie, his novel has been treated as “a work of bad history, as an anti-religious pamphlet, as the product of an international capitalistJewish conspiracy, as an act of murder,” everything but literature, a work of fiction. Rushdie is...

wuthering heights and the concept of marality/a sociological study of the novel

to discuss my point, i have collected quite a number of articles, anthologies, and books about "wuthering heights" applying various ideas and theories to this fantastic story. hence, i have come to believe that gadamer and jauss are rightful when they claim that "the individaul human mind is the center and origin of all meaning," 3 that reading literature is a reader-oriented activity, that it ...

The Beauty and the Beast

Mild psychological effects, such as sleep-deprivation, on an oppressed and tortured human being can be characterized as “normal”. However, Shame by Salman Rushdie uses magical realist style to describe the psychological effects of shame in a patriarchal society which is based on capitalistic class values. This essay will focus on the Marxist feminist reading of the novel with a psychoanalytical...

The Politics of Representation of Intellectual Disability In Select Indian Fiction

This paper includes four main stream writers of Indian origin, Salman Rushdie, Rohinton Mistry, Jaisree Misra and Anita Desai who have effectively projected an Intellectually Disabled character into mainstream writing. Though many a reading has been done on these writers, one aspect of scrutiny that has been constantly overlooked is the politics of representation of the Intellectually Disabled ...