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Salman Rushdie: Contemporary Critical Perspectives

Edited by Professor Robert Eaglestone, Edited by Martin McQuillan

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Sir Salman Rushdie is perhaps the most significant living novelist in English. His second novel, Midnightâ€™s Children, is regularly cited as the â€˜Booker of Bookersâ€™ and its impact is still being felt throughout in world literature. His fourth novel, The Satanic Verses, led to the â€˜Rushdie Affairâ€™ certainly the most significant literary-political event since the Second World War. Rushdie has continued to produce challenging fiction, controversial, thought-provoking non-fiction and has a presence on the world stage as a public intellectual. This collection brings together leading scholars to provide an up-to-date critical guide to Rushdieâ€™s writing from his earliest works up to the most recent, including his 2012 memoir of his time in hiding, Joseph Anton. Contributors offer new perspectives on key issues, including: Rushdie as a postcolonial writer; Rushdie as a postmodernist; his use and reuse of the canon; the â€˜Rushdie Affairâ€™; his responses to 9/11 and to the â€˜War on Terrorâ€™; and issues of more complex philosophical weight arising from his fiction.