{"product_id":"9781441193773","title":"Salman Rushdie: Contemporary Critical Perspectives","description":"Sir Salman Rushdie is perhaps the most significant living novelist in English. His second novel, \u003ci\u003eMidnight's Children\u003c\/i\u003e, is regularly cited as the 'Booker of Bookers' and its impact is still being felt throughout in world literature. His fourth novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Satanic Verses\u003c\/i\u003e, led to the 'Rushdie Affair' certainly the most significant literary-political event since the Second World War. Rushdie has continued to produce challenging fiction, controversial, thought-provoking non-fiction and has a presence on the world stage as a public intellectual. This collection brings together leading scholars to provide an up-to-date critical guide to Rushdie's writing from his earliest works up to the most recent, including his 2012 memoir of his time in hiding, \u003ci\u003eJoseph Anton\u003c\/i\u003e.  Contributors offer new perspectives on key issues, including: Rushdie as a postcolonial writer; Rushdie as a postmodernist; his use and reuse of the canon; the 'Rushdie Affair'; his responses to 9\/11 and to the 'War on Terror'; and issues of more complex philosophical weight arising from his fiction.","brand":"Bloomsbury USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47134601511152,"sku":"9781441193773","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781441193773_p0.jpg?v=1763790987","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781441193773","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}