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Supporting readings for on-campus speakers and events.

 

Salman Rushdie
2019 William R. Kenan Jr. Lecture
Wednesday, March 27, 7:30 p.m. in Haggin Auditorium

Readings

Aji, Aron R., and Salman Rushdie. “‘All Names Mean Something’: Salman Rushdie's ‘Haroun’ and the Legacy of Islam.” Contemporary Literature, vol. 36, no. 1, 1995, pp. 103–129.

Almond, Ian. “Mullahs, Mystics, Moderates and Moghuls: The Many Islams of Salman Rushdie.” ELH, vol. 70, no. 4, 2003, pp. 1137–1151.

Ball, John Clement. Satire & the Postcolonial Novel : V.s. Naipaul, Chinua Achebe, Salman Rushdie. Routledge, 2015.

Chakravorty, Pinaki. “The Rushdie Incident as Law-and-Literature Parable.” The Yale Law Journal, vol. 104, no. 8, 1995, pp. 2213–2247.

Ganapathy-Doré, Geetha. “Shakespeare In Rushdie/Shakespearean Rushdie / Shakespeare En Rushdie/Rushdie Shakesperiano.” Atlantis, vol. 31, no. 2, 2009, pp. 9–22.

Gates, Henry Louis. “Censorship and Justice: On Rushdie and Soyinka.” Research in African Literatures, vol. 21, no. 1, 1990, pp. 137–139.

Jussawalla, Feroza. “Rushdie's ‘Dastan-e-Dilruba’: ‘The Satanic Verses’ as Rushdie's Love Letter to Islam.” Diacritics, vol. 26, no. 1, 1996, pp. 50–73.

Kane, Jean M., and Salman Rushdie. “The Migrant Intellectual and the Body of History: Salman Rushdie's ‘Midnight's Children.’” Contemporary Literature, vol. 37, no. 1, 1996, pp. 94–118.

Kortenaar, Neil ten. “Fearful Symmetry: Salman Rushdie and Prophetic Newness.Twentieth Century Literature, vol. 54, no. 3, 2008, pp. 339–361.

Kunow, Rüdiger. “Architect of the Cosmopolitan Dream: Salman Rushdie.” Amerikastudien / American Studies, vol. 51, no. 3, 2006, pp. 369–385.

Reula, J.F. Galván, and Salman Rushdie. “On Reality, Fantasy and Fiction. A Conversation with Salman Rushdie.” Atlantis, vol. 6, no. 1/2, 1984, pp. 93–101.

Salman Rushdie, The Art of Fiction. Interview by Jack Livings. No. 186 Paris Review  no. 174, 2005.

Rushdie, Salman. The Satanic Verses. 1st American ed. ed., Viking Penguin, 1989.
PR6068 .U757 S27 1989

Rushdie, Salman. The Moor's Last Sigh. First American edition. ed., Pantheon Books, 1995.
PR6068 .U757 M66 1995

Rushdie, Salman. Step Across This Line : Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002. 1st ed. ed., Random House, 2002.
PR6068.U757 S74 2002

Rushdie, Salman. Midnight's Children : [a Novel]. 1st American ed. ed., Knopf, 1981.
PR9499.3.R8 M5 1981

Rushdie, Salman. The Jaguar Smile : A Nicaraguan Journey. 1st American ed. ed., Viking, 1987.
F1524 .R87 1987

Rushdie, Salman. Haroun and the Sea of Stories. Granta Books in Association with Penguin Books, 1991.
PR6068 .U757 H37 1991

Rushdie, Salman. Imaginary Homelands : Essays and Criticism 1981-1991. Granta in Association with Penguin, 1992.
PR6068 .U757 I4 1992

Sadri, Ahmad. “What Rushdie Wrote and Wrought.” International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, vol. 4, no. 3, 1991, pp. 371–385.

Sawhney, Sabina, and Simona Sawhney. “Introduction: Reading Rushdie after September 11, 2001.” Twentieth Century Literature, vol. 47, no. 4, 2001, pp. 431–443.

Sharma, Shailja. “Salman Rushdie: The Ambivalence of Migrancy.” Twentieth Century Literature, vol. 47, no. 4, 2001, pp. 596–618.

Sharp, Joanne P. “Locating Imaginary Homelands: Literature, Geography, and Salman Rushdie.” GeoJournal, vol. 38, no. 1, 1996, pp. 119–127.

Shivani, Anis, and Salman Rushdie. “‘Look at the World as It Is’: An Interview with Sir Salman Rushdie.” The Georgia Review, vol. 66, no. 2, 2012, pp. 222–250.

Teverson, Andrew. Salman Rushdie. Manchester University Press, 2007.

Weller, Paul. A Mirror for Our Times : 'the Rushdie Affair' and the Future of Multiculturalism. Continuum, 2009.

Yacoubi, Youssef, and ﺍﻟﻴﻌﻘﻮﺑﻲ ﻳﻮﺳﻒ. “Edward Said, Eqbal Ahmad, and Salman Rushdie: Resisting the Ambivalence of Postcolonial Theory / ﺇﺩﻭﺍﺭﺩ ﺳﻌﻴﺪ ﻭﺇﻗﺒﺎﻝ ﺃﺣﻤﺪ ﻭﺳﻠﻤﺎﻥ ﺭﺷﺪﻱ: ﻣﻘﺎﻭﻣﺔ ﺍﻟﺘﺒﺎﺱ ﻧﻈﺮﻳﺔ ﻣﺎ ﺑﻌﺪ ﺍﻟﻜﻮﻟﻮﻧﻴﺎﻟﻴﺔ.Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, no. 25, 2005, pp. 193–218.