• ISBN13: 9788126902026
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: Atlantic
• Publication Date: August 20, 2014
• Pages: 472
• Original Price: INR 1400.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 810 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): General

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-‘Verses controversy’ period. The essays present an honest assessment of Rushdie’s works by creatively engaging with the issues each of them raises.

Rajeshwar Mittapalli is Associate Professor of English at Kakatiya University, Warangal, Andhra Pradesh, India. His published works of criticism include The Novels of Wole Soyinka and Indian Women Novelists and Psychoanalysis. So far he has edited 20 anthologies of literary essays. They include Post-modernism and English Literature, Indian Fiction in English, Studies in Indian Writing in English, Volume 1 & 2, Post-Independence Indian English Fiction, Commonwealth Fiction: Twenty-first Century Readings, Modern American Literature, V.S. Naipaul: Fiction and Travel Writing, Modern Criticism and IT Revolution, Globalization and the Teaching of English. Dr. Mittapalli is currently the editor of The Atlantic Literary Review published from New Delhi. He is also the ex-officio editor of Kakatiya Journal of English Studies, an official publication of the Department of English, Kakatiya University, Warangal. He has published 32 articles on Indian, African and American fiction and ELT in such reputed journals as New Quest, ARTSresearch, Indian Literature, The Journal of Indian Writing in English, Commonwealth Quarterly, The Commonwealth Review and Revaluations. Joel Kuortti is Acting Professor of English at the University of Tampere, Finland. He has published three works on Rushdie: The Salman Rushdie Bibliography (1997), Place of the Sacred (1997), and Fictions to Live In (1998). Currently he is working on Indian English literature and has compiled an extensive bibliography of Indian women’s writing in English.

• Vol. I
• 1. Grimus and the Alchemical Tradition
• Margareta Petersson
• 2. Allegories of Fiction: Grimus and Haroun and the Sea of Stories
• Joel Kuortti
• 3. The (Un)Making of Saladin Chamcha: Rushdie’s Subversion of the Bildungsroman
• Shaul Bassi
• 4. Pessoptimism: Satire and the Menippean Grotesque in Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children
• John Clement Ball
• 5. The (Hi)Story of Padma’s 1001 Different Faces
• Pier Paolo Piciucco
• 6. Centres and Margins: Shame’s ‘Other’ Nation
• Syed Mujeebuddin
• 7. The Politics of Repression and Resistance in Salman Rushdie’s Shame
• Neluka Silva
• 8. Rushdie and his World: The Carnivalesque, Masquerade, and Grotesque Realism in his Fiction
• Blair Mahoney
• Vol. II
• 1. Schema Disruption in the Re-writing of History: Salman Rushdie’s East, West
• Celia M. Wallhead
• 2. Origin, Origins, Originality: Salman Rushdie’s East, West, David Malouf’s Antipodes, and Wilson Harris’ The Womb of Space
• Elsa Linguanti
• 3. Acid in the Nation’s Bloodstream: Satire, Violence, and the Indian Body Politic in Salman Rushdie’s The Moor’s Last Sigh
• John Clement Ball
• 4. A Post-modern, Provocative, Metropolitan Mother India: Aurora Zogoiby of Rushdie’s The Moor’s Last Sigh
• P. Balaswamy
• 5. The Subversive Sub-text of Spices in Salman Rushdie’s The Moor’s Last Sigh
• Celia M. Wallhead
• 6. Rushdie’s Un-Indian Music: The Ground Beneath Her Feet
• Christopher Rollason
• 7. “Searching for a Sense of Self”: Postmodernist Theories of Identity and the Novels of Salman Rushdie
• Michael Hensen and Mike Petry
• 8. Rushdie’s Affiliation with Dickens
• Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère
• 9. ‘Old Stable Ego of the Character’: The Politics of Identity in Rushdie’s Fiction
• Michael Hensen