Salman Rushdie and the Genesis of Secrecy

by Vijay Mishra

Book Overview

Salman Rushdie and the Genesis of Secrecy is the first book to draw extensively from material in the Salman Rushdie archive at Emory University to uncover the makings of the British-Indian writer's modernist poetics. Simultaneously connecting Rushdie with radical non-Western humanism and an essentially English-European sensibility, and therefore questions about world literature, this book argues that a true understanding of the writer lies...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350094390
• ISBN13: 9781350094390
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"