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Salman Rushdie's Cities

By Vassilena Parashkevova

Salman Rushdie's Cities Contemporary literature

Salman Rushdie's Cities

By Vassilena Parashkevova

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Employing Salman Rushdie as a guide to a historicized contemporary, this study offers an interdisciplinary exploration of the plurality of cities along his transnational trajectory. It engages with the geographically identifiable Bombay, Karachi, Islamabad, London or New York; the phantasmal, politically coded, Jahilia or Mildendo, the inspirational yet flawed urban precedents of Fatehpur Sikri or Renaissance Florence and the ways these cities generate, interact with and transform each other. The book situates Rushdie's cities in relation to developments in Bombay, Karachi, Islamabad and London writing and focuses on novels which shuttle between cities. Parashkevova attends to cities' cultural and historical contexts, to many of Rushdie's numerous literary, cinematic and artistic influences and to diverse events, processes and paradigms - earthquakes, translations, seductions - that politically re-position cities and citizens on the contemporary urban map.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
246
Release Date:
2013-11-24
Publication Date:
2013-11-24
Publisher:
Bloomsbury 3PL
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1472527267
ISBN13:
9781472527264
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
380 g
Height:
156 cm
Width:
234 cm
Thickness:
13 cm
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