The science fiction dimensions of Salman Rushdie / Yael Maurer.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (213 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781476614021 (e-book)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Science fiction dimensions of Salman Rushdie.DDC classification:
  • 823/.914 23
LOC classification:
  • PR6068.U757 Z7656 2014eb
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Contents:
Preface: Rereading Rushdie -- Rushdie's peripheries: imagined histories of nation -- Rage against the machine: cyberspace narratives in Rushdie's fury -- "The world is (not) what it is": the ground beneath her feet -- The year of the reverse: The Antagonist and Midnight's Children -- Haroun and Shalimar: Kashmir and Koshmar -- Immortality now: Luka and the fire of life.
Summary: "This work focuses on the science fictional dimensions of Rushdie's later novels, Fury, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Shalimar the Clown and Luka and the Fire of Life, and Rushdie's first unpublished novel, The Antagonist, to show how the author's oeuvre moves towards a more consistent engagement with science fiction as a generic form and an ideological investment"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface: Rereading Rushdie -- Rushdie's peripheries: imagined histories of nation -- Rage against the machine: cyberspace narratives in Rushdie's fury -- "The world is (not) what it is": the ground beneath her feet -- The year of the reverse: The Antagonist and Midnight's Children -- Haroun and Shalimar: Kashmir and Koshmar -- Immortality now: Luka and the fire of life.

"This work focuses on the science fictional dimensions of Rushdie's later novels, Fury, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Shalimar the Clown and Luka and the Fire of Life, and Rushdie's first unpublished novel, The Antagonist, to show how the author's oeuvre moves towards a more consistent engagement with science fiction as a generic form and an ideological investment"-- Provided by publisher.

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