A Mirror For Our Times: 'The Rushdie Affair' and the Future of Multiculturalism

by Paul Weller

Book Overview

26th September 2008 marks the twentieth anniversary of the beginning of The Satanic Verses controversy - a controversy that in many ways became paradigmatic for the following two decades.

Taking as its starting-point the opening two years of the controversy, Paul Weller uses the events and arguments of those years as a lens through which to view what later developed, both in relation to the controversy itself, but also its wider entails,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826451209
• ISBN13: 9780826451200
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.4"