LITERATURE QUESTIONS
CULTURAL AND LITERARY IN MODERNITY
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Marxism
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Post-Colonial Theory
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Deconstruction
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Feminism
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Detailed explanation-1: -Salman Rushdie has been studied and researched as a postcolonial writer as there are obvious postcolonial themes in his novels. But we can also study him as a postmodern writer.
Detailed explanation-2: -Like the one he uses in the same essay (mentioned already), the metaphor of ‘chimera’, that is used in place of the idea of ‘commonwealth literature. ‘ Because Rushdie believes that there is nothing like commonwealth literature as thought by the West. It is an imaginary thing.
Detailed explanation-3: -Salman Rushdie is best known for his fifth book, The Satanic Verses, which prompted a fatwa against him in 1989. But over the past 40 years he has published 16 others, including Midnight’s Children-the winner of three Booker awards-and his latest novel, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights.
Detailed explanation-4: -Introduction. The stories of Salman Rushdie in, “East, West” depict the themes of Exile alienation, expatriation and assimilation. But his depiction of alienation and expatriation is somewhat different.