Salman Rushdie (1947 - )

A selective bibliography of 23 active links for Salman Rushdie, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the Modern Language Association Guidelines for Authors of Web Pages


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Literary criticism and analysis

Aldama, Frederick Luis. A review of Aldama's Postethnic Narrative Criticism: Magicorealism in Oscar "Zeta" Acosta, Ana Castillo, Julie Dash, Hanif Kureishi, and Salman Rushdie. (Univ. of Texas Press, 2003). Reviewed in MELUS, Spring, 2005 by Rafael E. Saumell

Dalmia, Shikha. "The iconoclast: Salman Rushdie discusses free speech, fundamentalism, America's place in the world, and his new essay collection." Reason, August-Sept, 2005

Deszcz, Justyna. "Salman Rushdie's attempt at a feminist fairytale reconfiguration in Shame." Folklore, April, 2004

Ghosh-Schellhorn, Martina. An introduction to Salman Rushdie from the Literary Encyclopedia, 16 May 2003 On Midnight's Children (1981); The Jaguar Smile (1987)

Heffernan, Teresa. "Apocalyptic Narratives: The Nation in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children." Twentieth Century Literature, Winter, 2000

Holmes, Frederick M. "Postcolonial subject divided between East and West: Kureishi's The Black Album as an intertext of Rushdie's The Satanic Verses." Papers on Language and Literature, Summer 2001

Kullmann, Thomas. "Eastern and Western Story-Telling in Salman Rushdie's Haroun and the Sea of Stories." About a children's book by Rushdie, in EESE 1/1996

Mann, Harveen Sachveda. "Being borne across": translation and Salman Rushdie's 'The Satanic Verses.' Criticism, Spring, 1995

Richards, Fiona. "The Desecrated Shrine: Movable Icons and Literary Irreverence in Salman Rushdie's The Prophet's Hair," SOAS Literary Review, 2, July 2000

Sanga, Jaina C. A review of Sanga's Salman Rushdie's Postcolonial Metaphors: Migration, Translation, Hybridity, Blasphemy, and Globalization. (Greenwood Press, 2001). Reviewed in Journal of Third World Studies, Spring 2004 by Ivory, James M

Sawhney, Sabina and Simona Sawhney. "Reading Rushdie after September 11, 2001." Twentieth Century Literature, Winter, 2001

Sharma, Shailja. "Salman Rushdie: the ambivalence of migrancy." Twentieth Century Literature, Winter, 2001

Sharpe, Jenny. "The Limits of What Is Possible: Reimagining Sharam in Salman Rushdie's Shame," Jouvert, Vol. 1, No. 1


Introductory, lighter reading, unsigned material

The NYTimes feature web site on Salman Rushdie contains the New York Times original reviews of his books and numerous NY Time articles on the fatwa against Rushdie, his life in hiding, and the aftermath

Biographical introduction to Salman Rushdie from the Books and Writers web site maintained by the Kuusankoski Public Library, Finland

Discussion questions for The Moor's Last Sigh, from Random House

An overview of Salman Rushdie's work from Professor George Landow's Postcolonial Literature and Cultural Web. It includes critical articles about his novels, their themes, techniques, and cultural contexts

A biography of Salman Rushdie from the postcolonial web project at Emory Univ

A Salon.com interview with Salman Rushdie

An overview of Midnight's Children, from the World Literatures in English Web Site maintained by Fu Jen University, Taiwan

An overview of Salman Rushdie's stories from the World Literatures in English Web Site maintained by Fu Jen University, Taiwan


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