LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS
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Doris Lessing
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Ahmed Salman Rushdie
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Chinua Achebe
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None of the above
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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: -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-3: -Salman Rushdie is an Indian-born British writer whose allegorical novels examine historical and philosophical issues. He is known for his novels, including Midnight’s Children, Shame, and The Satanic Verses.
Detailed explanation-4: -The novel was banned in Rushdie’s native India and prompted the theocratic Iranian government to issue a fatwa-a religious ruling-calling for his death in 1989.