Salman Rushdie (1947- )

A selective list of literary criticism for Indian novelist 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 Web Pages

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literary criticism

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 9July 20000

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

introduction and lighter reading

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

A salon.com interview with Salman Rushdie

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 [registration required]

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