Salman Rushdie The Satanic Verses

Weatherby, W.J. Salman Rushdie: Sentenced To Death. New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, Incorporated, 1990. ISBN: 0881845728

First edition FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. 258 pages with index and 8 pages black and white photos. The book is in FINE condition. The jacket is in NEAR FINE condition with minor chipping on spine ends, edges, and corners. JMVINTAGE specializes in Books, Magazines and Treasures related to the Duke and Duchess Windsor and..other curious people. The dust jacket reads: Who is Salman Rushdie? The most famous author in the world is someone we barely know. His novel, The Satanic Verses, has created more controversy and raised more fundamental questions than any work of art this century. And yet the man himself has been, until this book, a figure whose personality and history are little understood. W.J. Weatherby has written a biography of Salman Rushdie that reveals and clarifies the influential events and people in the writer's life. But it is more than the life story of one of the most elusive of contemporary authors. The book also explains and makes even more significant the sentence of death ordered by the Ayatollah Khomeini. By tracing Rushdie's progress from his birth in Bombay to his education in England, his return to the Indian subcontinent and subsequent flight back to London to begin his literary career, Weatherby has achieved a singular portrait of this remarkable man of two worlds. That part of the book which deals with "The Satanic Verses" affair is a penetrating account of an issue that should be of great concern to anyone in the West who values the principles of free speech and separation of church and state. This is especially true given Weatherby's argument that it was almost inevitable that Rushdie would write the fiction deemed blasphemous by the world's Muslims and that he was well aware of the fury, if not the consequences, that would greet the publication of his novel. Hard Cover condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

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SMALE, DAVID. Salman Rushdie - Midnight's Children/ The Satanic Verses. Palgrave Macmillan. 2001.. Palgrave Macmillan, 2001. ; weicher Einband / soft cover ISBN: 9781840462531
Paperback, 192pp., This listing is a new book, a title currently in-print which we order directly and immediately from the publisher. The Booker Prize-winning Midnight's Children (1981) marked a decisive commercial and critical upturn in Salman Rushdie's career as a novelist. The instantly recognisable face of postcolonial literature, Rushdie now finds himself in a unique position in global culture, following the fatwa issued by the Ayatollah Khomeini on publication of <EM>The Satanic Verses</EM> in 1988. This novel has brought down the weight of fundamentalist politics on a writer regarded as a paradigm of postmodernism, and become the very real embodiment of a multitude of debates at the heart of contemporary criticism.<BR><BR>In this Readers' Guide, David Smale traces the critical reception of this fascinating writer by examining the changing responses to his two best-known works. As a novelist and icon, Rushdie has embraced both 'popular' and 'high' culture; reflecting this, the Guide brings together both academic criticism and journalism to investigate the passions and preoccupations of Rushdie's many critics, steering the reader through the inflamed debates and rhetoric surrounding this much admired but controversial author..

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Györke, Agnes: Postmodern Nations in Salman Rushdie's Fiction Midnight's Children, Shame, and The Satanic Verses, VDM VERLAG DR. MÜLLER, , Besorgungstitel - vorauss. Lieferzeit 3-5 Tage. ISBN: 3639311329
This book investigates the ambivalent space that nations occupy in Salman Rushdie's fiction. Relying on Walter Benjamin, I argue that the structure of the modern nation is split, and whereas this split remains hidden in the discourse of nationalism studies (Benedict Anderson, Ernest Gellner, etc.), it becomes manifest in Rushdie's postmodern texts. Rushdie's nations, instead of parading as seamless entities, challenge national pedagogies by reinserting a peculiar vision of subjectivity into the discourse of the nation. Located in the context of magic and noise, this subjectivity needs a protective shelter in his novels: in Midnight's Children (the novel about India), Saleem's nose provides a secure place for the disarticulate, pre-symbolic noise of the children. In the schizophrenic world of Shame (the novel about Pakistan), no such space exists; locked attic rooms do not provide protection, simply repress alternatives. I read The Satanic Verses as a novel of survival, which envisages a more viable, though more diabolical, alternative space for the nation than the previous two texts.

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Rajeshwar Mittapalli & Joel Kuortti (eds) Illustrator: NA: Salman Rushdie: New Critical Insights, Vol. 1, Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd 2003 ISBN: 9788126902002

New Hardcover NA Rushdie has put behind him the political and religious controversy that surrounded him in the aftermath of the appearance of The Satanic Verses. These two volumes endeavour to continue the literary-critical study of his works by bringing together some of the best critical essays written in the post-aEUR Verses controversyaEUR period. The essays present an honest assessment of RushdieaEUR s works by creatively engaging with the issues each of them raises. Printed Pages: 248. 5th or later edition

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