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Salman Rushdie and the Genesis of Secrecy (Hardcover)
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Salman Rushdie and the Genesis of Secrecy (Hardcover)
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Salman Rushdie and the Genesis of Secrecy is the first book to draw
extensively from material in the Salman Rushdie archive at Emory
University to uncover the makings of the British-Indian writer's
modernist poetics. Simultaneously connecting Rushdie with radical
non-Western humanism and an essentially English-European
sensibility, and therefore questions about world literature, this
book argues that a true understanding of the writer lies in
uncovering his 'genesis of secrecy' through a close reading of his
archive. Topics and materials explored include unpublished novels,
plays and screenplays; the earlier versions and drafts of
Midnight's Children and its adaptations; understanding Islam and
The Satanic Verses; the influence of cinema; and Rushdie's turn to
earlier archives as the secret codes of modernism. Through careful
examination of Rushdie's archive, Vijay Mishra demonstrates how
Rushdie combines a radically new form of English with a familiarity
with the generic registers of Indian, Arabic and Persian literary
forms. Together, these present a contradictory orientalism that
defines Rushdie's own humanism within the parameters of world
literature.
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