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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Salman 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
… of the 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 …
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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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Melancholy and Satire: Representation of Islam and Nationhood in the Works of Salman Rushdie and Orhan Pamuk
… Homi 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
… of 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 …
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Rewriting history : postmodern and postcolonial negotiations in the fiction of J.G. Farrell, Timothy Mo, Kazuo Ishiguro and Salman Rushdie
… J. G. 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 …
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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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Symbols and Worlds: a study of the Sacred in a selection of works by Assia Djebar, Tahar Ben Jelloun and Salman Rushdie
… of texts 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 …
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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
… writers 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 …
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Skinning the Deer: A Love Story
… of Gabriel 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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The postexotic Arab: Orientalist dystopias in contemporary postcolonial fiction
… Ann-Marie MacDonald's Fall on Your Knees (1996), Salman Rushdie's The Moor's Last Sigh (1996), and Diana Abu-Jaber's Crescent (2003) and The Language of Baklava (2005), I argue that contemporary postcolonial fiction displays a patently self-conscious, self-parodic engagement with the constitutive …
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Translation and the quest for self-identity in postcolonial Indian Anglophone and Maghrebian Francophone literature
… from India and the Maghreb by writers like Salman Rushdie, Vikram Seth, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Driss Chraibi, Albert Memmi and Leila Sebbar.I begin by discussing the areas as Postcolonial spaces and draw out the similarities in Form and Content found in the novels. Then, the thesis looks at one …
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Transforming Limits: Home, Literary Activism and Engagement in South Asian Literature
… children’s literary texts by Mahasweta Devi and Salman Rushdie. Overall, this thesis argues that the narrative depiction of home, of its limits, and its potential for transformation, marks a key site for the understanding of liter ary activism and engagement in South Asian literature.
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Generating Newness: The Third Space Modality in The Buddha Of Suburbia, Fruit of the Lemon and White Teeth
… and generate newness. Newness, as presented by Salman Rushdie in The Satanic Verses, is difference that derives from immigration and hybridity, specifically, constructive changes in the way people think and behave in relation to immigration, hybridity, culture and people of colour. By examining …
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