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Global Migrancy and Diasporic Memory in the Work of Salman Rushdie
examines Salman Rushdie's major works for the ways that they
consistently affirm the power of memory to construct a concrete,
rooted identity for characters and nation-states despite the
prerogative of migrants to translate themselves into new creations
through a dismissal of the weight of the past. Stephen J. Bell
conducts an in-depth, comprehensive postcolonial and postmodern of
Rushdie's ideas as expressed through his work. If "exile is a dream
of glorious return," as one of his characters reflects in The
Satanic Verses, few diasporic writers living today rival Rushdie
for the singular inspiration he draws from memories of home and the
past. So vital is the idea of home and belonging to Rushdie that,
notwithstanding the frequent charges of his critics that he
represents no more than a disconnected cosmopolitan, Bell would
categorize Rushdie's position as one of "centripetal migrancy"
(with centrum--"center"--and petere--"to seek"--forming the idea of
a constant quest for the center). Rushdie thus qualifies as the
quintessential "centripetal migrant," whose slippery critical
location is balanced Janus-faced between the future and the past.
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