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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"The Satanic Verses"”.
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Speaking Subjects: Beckett’s Not I, Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses, and Coetzee’s Foe
… 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 that the speaking subject’s …
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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
… 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
… 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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To Be Born IS to Die: A Study of Spatio-Temporal Impossibility and the Apocalypse in Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses
In the nearly 25 years since its first publication, critics have labeled Salman Rushdie's <italic>The Satanic Verses</italic> postmodern, postcolonial, modern, or any combination of the three (as well as religious, antireligious, and other terms on which I do not focus). I argue for an …
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Revelations: Spirituality as Privileged Perspectivism in Magical Realist Distortions
<p>This thesis examines the role of spiritual beliefs in the literary mode now known as magical realism in Cuban Alejo Carpentier’s The Kingdom of This World (1949), Indian-Born British and American Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses (1988), and a lesser-known novel, Household Saints (1981) by …
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Aesthetics, Politics, and the Urban Space in Postcolonial British Literature
This study examines the aesthetic and narrative interventions employed by marginalized and minority communities in Postcolonial Britain in the face of political and social dispossession. It looks at Buchi Emecheta’s Second-Class Citizen (1975), Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses (1989), and Zadie …
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The common good in a plural society: Muslims, Christians and the Public Arena in Britain
This thesis develops an idea of how the common good might be pursued in a plural society, beginning from Jonathan Sacks' vision of such a society as a'community of communities'. It does so principally by developing Alasdair Maclnytre's concept of 'tradition'. Chapter 1 begins by assembling …
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Generating Newness: The Third Space Modality in The Buddha Of Suburbia, Fruit of the Lemon and White Teeth
In The Location of Culture, Homi Bhabha introduces his concepts of the third space, in-between spaces, the beyond and hybridity to explore how subordinated people – including colonized people, minorities and migrants – resist the dominant group’s power and generate newness. Newness, as presented by …
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Freedom of speech as a universal value (a comparative approach from international human rights law, the first amendment, and Islamic law)
The issue of universalism in the human right of freedom of speech is one of several that continue to be debated among Muslims and Westerners. As evidence of incompatibility of Islamic law with the international law of freedom of speech, Westerners, on the basis of Muslims' reactions towards the …
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A history of apartheid censorship through the archive
Over the course of 26 years, and using 97 different definitions of what the system considered to be “undesirable,” South Africa's apartheid-era censors prevented a vast array of literature from being freely circulated in South Africa. The official and symbolic power that they wielded as the …