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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"Rushdie"”.
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Salman Rushdie in the Postmodern Current: New Venues, New Values
<p>The aim of this study is to prove that Rushdie's recent novels are not postcolonial in the sense that they abandon the colonial/colonized binary, the embrace of hybridity, and the theme of undermining the coercion and domination of the colonial country assumed in postcolonial discourse. Instead, …
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The Salman Rushdie controversy, religious plurality and established religion in England
This thesis argues that the Salman Rushdie controversy has a range of "entails" which focus and contribute to the need for a reconsideration of the complex constitutional nexus of religion, society and state currently embodied in the establishment of the Church of England. Chapter 1: The …
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Representations of migrant and nation in selected works of Rohinton Mistry and Salman Rushdie
… Bombay-born novelists Rohinton Mistry and Salman Rushdie. I explore each writer's engagement with contemporary debates surrounding the material, political, social and imaginative consequences of the crisis in secularism in India during the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, and consider how this engagement …
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Alejo Carpentier, Gabriel García Márquez, Salman Rushdie : three moments in the problematics of magic realism
Chapter One begins by outlining the space magic occupies in Western culture, clarifying what I mean by the term "magic". I examine aspects of indigenous American sacred traditions which have influenced and which prefigure magic realism. I review the development of the aesthetic in its Latin …
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Salman Rushdie's Fiction in a Global Perspective: Hybridity and Fundamentalism in The Satanic Verses and The Moor's Last Sigh
In this study, I examine Salman Rushdie’s fiction within the critical framework of globalization studies. In particular, I focus on The Satanic Verses (1988) and The Moor’s Last Sigh (1995) in order to elucidate the specific ways in which Rushdie engages the promises and pitfalls of cultural …
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Salman Rushdie's Fiction in a Global Perspective: Hybridity and Fundamentalism in The Satanic Verses and The Moor's Last Sigh
In this study, I examine Salman Rushdie’s fiction within the critical framework of globalization studies. In particular, I focus on The Satanic Verses (1988) and The Moor’s Last Sigh (1995) in order to elucidate the specific ways in which Rushdie engages the promises and pitfalls of cultural …
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Melancholy and Satire: Representation of Islam and Nationhood in the Works of Salman Rushdie and Orhan Pamuk
… Bhabha, and Fredric Jameson, I situate Salman Rushdie and Orhan Pamuk within literary attempts at national representation and narratives of westernization. The main question that the study raises is: what are the literary results of migration, cultural or religious conversion within the …
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Colonial and post-colonial discourse in the novels of Yom Sang-sop, Chinua Achebe and Salman Rushdie
… Korea, of Chinua Achebe of Nigeria and of Salman Rushdie of Indian subcontinent. Since much of the critical attention on colonial discourse has been focused on western narratives, this study aims to shed a different light on the subject by approaching it from the perspectives of the colonized.
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Rewriting history : postmodern and postcolonial negotiations in the fiction of J.G. Farrell, Timothy Mo, Kazuo Ishiguro and Salman Rushdie
… Farrell, Timothy Mo, Kazuo Ishiguro and Salman Rushdie. I argue that their work occupies a particular position that is both within contemporary British fiction, yet at one remove from it. Their work is situated within the context of critiques of history that are the source of a conflict between …
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Personagens à procura de um autor: Salman Rushdie e a fluidez da linguagem em Haroun and the Sea of Stories
Salman Rushdie, atualmente um dos grandes nomes da literatura contemporânea em língua inglesa, é uma figura reconhecida pela sua contribuição às representações em que o conceito de identidade, local e global se entrelaçam aos da linguagem enquanto uma construção ideológica. A literatura revela-se, …
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Divided Bodies: Nation Formation and the Literary Marketplace in Salman Rushdie's Shame and Bapsi Sidhwa's Cracking India
… and violated postcolonial body in Salman Rushdie’s Shame (1983) and Bapsi Sidhwa’s Cracking India (1991), originally published in India as Ice-Candy Man (1988). Shame and Cracking India remain entryways into exploring the political, cultural, and economic dynamics of the preceding and …
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Speaking Subjects: Beckett’s Not I, Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses, and Coetzee’s Foe
In repositioning Beckett’s Not I in relation to Rushdie and Coetzee, I show that The Satanic Verses and Foe suggest approaches to language similar to Beckett’s play, insofar as each text interrogates the ability of the marginalized speaking subject to maintain control of his or her voice, finding …
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Symbols and Worlds: a study of the Sacred in a selection of works by Assia Djebar, Tahar Ben Jelloun and Salman Rushdie
… by Assia Djebar, Tahar Ben Jelloun and Salman Rushdie. The aims of this thesis are threefold. The first aim is to demonstrate that the selected texts of the three authors creatively engage with the Sufi Islamic heritage through the use of symbolic expressions of the Sacred. The second aim is to …
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Constructions of home and nation in the literature of the Indian diaspora, with particular reference to selected works of Bharati Mukherjee, Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh and Rohinton Mistry
… in diaspora, such as Bharati Mukherjee, Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh and Rohinton Mistry reject all appeals to an originary narrative of cultural identity in their attempt to dismantle and reconfigure the dominant narrative of the nation/state. In these texts, home and nation are renarrated, not …
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Skinning the Deer: A Love Story
… Garcia Marquez, Dorothy Allison, and Salman Rushdie, Skinning the Deer weaves together magical realism, trauma narrative, and myth; it is a novel about sexuality, betrayal, and what we sacrifice for redemption.
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