Salman Rushdie

After the post-war consensus planning of 1945, Britain and its society took a sharp left turn from the old world ideals practiced by the previous federal administrations in Britain. From the profoundly right wing political schema present in the pre-war society to the strongly liberal left that came to power in parliament after the war, the federal landscape of modern Britain warped during the 1940’s. The foundation of a social welfare republic and the rise of the labour party created a nation…

people interact with and feel about others around them. I will be comparing and using the novels of Shame and One Hundred Years of Solitude to portray the differences and similarities between the two cultures and how women are perceived. Shame by Salman Rushdie is based on Pakistani culture, and surely has many similarities in gender roles to the Latin American culture portrayed in One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Marquez. Additionally, in society today, gender roles are said to have…

Since Salman Rushdie was condemned to death by the Ayatollah for his book, “The Satanic Verses.” I have been intrigued on how anyone could write something and have such a large group of people want you dead. The last 10 years has shown us how radical Islam is showing how cruel and brutal they can be with no compromise. In 1993, the judges for the “Booker of Bookers panel explicitly singled out Midnight’s Children for novelty of content and the three judges agreed that Rushdie's...stood above the…

Salman Rushdie’s Midnight's Children significantly shaped the course of Indian writing in English. This great work of art gave Rushdie a prominent position in the literary canon. He got a definite place in the readers‟ heart. Midnight's Children is a typical example of a postcolonial novel that integrates the elements of magic realism into it. The author‟s intentional use of magic realism helps in bringing out the surreal and unreal dimensions of the Indian subcontinent and thereby making it a…

Just as how Foster proved his claim that every literary piece is a spinoff of Shakespeare’s works in Chapter 6, Foster shows how every literary work has biblical allusions by showing how biblical allusions are utilized for different purposes. He continues this claim by connecting poetry, modern texts, postmodern texts, plays, nonreligious texts and many more to the Bible. He proves this by providing examples such as a scene in Toni Morrison’s Beloved (1987) where the characters view four white…

novelist with his critical insight projects before us the shaping influences of culture in the form of honour and shame, shame and shamelessness. Rushdie himself has stated in the novel that the country is not Pakistan and the novel is not a feminist novel but there is no denying from the fact that women occupy a very large portion of the novel. Rushdie portrays the gloomy picture of the Pakistani society in which the women have to face acute sufferings and oppression and suppression has become…

Scott Russel Sanders in his essay “Staying Put: Making a Home in a Restless World” challenges Salman Rushdie and his belief that migration makes people “root themselves in ideas rather than places.” Sanders challenges his point by saying that by rooting oneself, “we might begin to pay heed and respect to where we are.” Through the author’s use of objecting Rushdie’s claims, juxtapozizing competitive thoughts, and appealing to a reader’s pathos, Sanders develops and shares his perspective on…

The identity conflicts in the characters of Santosh (Out of Many by V.S Naipul), Aziz (Perforated Sheet by Salman Rushdie), and Chike (Chike’s School Days by Chinua Achebe) is occasioned many things related to the effects of post-colonialism, essentially the American and European cultural image creating a culture shock as well as an economic factor. Both are uncomfortable in their setting and opt to adopt their new environment (Lacan 54). Although they think their new cultures they have settled…

So, the question asks, “is there ever a place in a representative democracy for suppression of works based on prescribed ideas/ideology?” Knowing me and how I feel and have argued about potentially banning books in the past, one would think my answer would be a simple yes. My answer is a simple one though it is not yes. When asked if governments should be able to ban a book, and that is what the question is asking, if a government should be able to ban a book based purely on ideology my response…

The author Salman Rushdie asks a very compelling question which is, are the Sandinistas the young girl or the jaguar? Rushdie visited Nicaragua as an impartial observer, he was invited by the Sandinista Cultural Workers Assn., and he is being escorted all around the country to meet with the top commanders. After three weeks on constant interviews with the commanders and several encounters with folk people in cities such as Matagalpa and Bluefield’s. He is soon becomes a believer to “las causa”,…