The Play of Reasons: The Sacred and the Profane in Salman Rushdie's Fiction

by Youssef Yacoubi

The Play of Reasons argues that Salman Rushdie's eclectic and hybridized work can be situated within an Islamic genealogy of theological and literary traditions. Rushdie's prose is difficult to conceive as unitary in meaning precisely because it operates according to a polymorphous Islamic literary and theological register, while also being divided by the Greek, Abrahamic, and Indian dimensions. There is a parallax when Rushdie is viewed from...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1433113260
• ISBN13: 9781433113260
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"