Stranger Gods: Salman Rushdie's Other Worlds
By Roger Y. Clark.
Description
In "Stranger Gods", Roger Clark offers an ambitious and wide-ranging study of Salman Rushdie's seven published novels, with a special focus on his earliest, "Grimus", and his most powerful and provocative, "Midnight's Children", "Shame", and "The Satanic Verses". Clark shows how Rushdie employs cosmology, mythology, and mysticism to structure otherworldly dramas that are fascinating in their own right, as well as crucial to the more worldly points Rushdie makes about literary tradition, history, ethnicity, and the politics of relig...
ISBN(s)
0773521070, 9780773521070
