Salman Rushdie

Robert Eaglestone is Professor of Contemporary Literature and Thought at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. His previous publications include Doing English: A Guide for Literature Students.Martin McQuillan is Professor of Literary Theory and Cultural Analysis and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Science at Kingston University, UK, and Co-Director of the London Graduate School.

• Preface Kenan Malik \ Series Editors' Preface \ Contributors \ General Introduction Robert Eaglestone and Martin MacQuillan \ 1. Rushdie's Early Fiction and the Rise of Postcolonialism Ellie Byrne \ 2. Revisiting The Satanic Verses: The Fatwa and its Legacies Anshuman Mondal \ 3. Rushdie after 9/11 Martin MacQuillan \ 4. Salman Rushdie and the Post-Colonial Folk and Fairy Tale Andrew Teverson \ 5. Interview: Homi Bhabha with Robert Eaglestone and Martin McQuillan \ 6. Postcolonial Secularism and Literary Form in Salman Rushdie's Fiction Stephen Morton \ 7. The Authentic in Salman Rushdie Robert Eaglestone \ 8. Rushdie Writing and Rewriting the Canon Ankhi Mukerjee \ 9. Rushdie's Non-fiction Daniel O'Gorman \ Further Reading \ Index

Robert Eaglestone and Martin McQuillan’s collection of essays on Rushdie attempts to rethink his work withrespect to postcolonialism, postmodernism, and what Eaglestone identifies as the paradoxical in Rushdie’s work. [The book features] a useful chronology and further reading section.