Salman Rushdie and the Genesis of Secrecy

Vijay Mishra is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Murdoch University, Australia. He has two doctorates, the first from the Australian National University in Medieval Indian Poetry and Aesthetics, the second from the University of Oxford in 18th-Century English Literature. He has written widely on literary and cultural studies, including Annotating Salman Rushdie: Reading the Postcolonial (2018), What Was Multiculturalism?: A Critical Retrospective (2012), The Literature of the Indian Diaspora: Theorizing the Diasporic Imaginary (2007), Bollywood Cinema: Temples of Desire (2002), Devotional Poetics and the Indian Sublime (1998), The Gothic Sublime (1994) and Dark Side of the Dream: Australian Literature and the Postcolonial Mind (with Bob Hodge, 1991).

• Preface and Acknowledgments Prologue: 'And what so tedious as a twice-told tale'1. Archive Fever: The 'Biografiend' and the Genesis of Secrecy2. Manuscripts in the Archive3. The Riddle of Midnight’s Children: Unravelling a Text4. The Affective Turn and Salman Rushdie5. Salman Rushdie Cinema and Bollywood6. Archival ModernismEpilogue: Salman Rushdie Humanism and World LiteratureBibliographyIndex

An enjoyable journey into the life, dreams and imperfections of a writer who straddles an uncomfortable position between the East and the West