Satanic v. Angelic: The World Welterweight Fight: Rushdie Takes on Hegemony!
While the West has generally viewed reaction to The Satanic Verses as typifying the backwardness of Islam and championed Rushdie as an icon of free speech, such a binary interpretation is misleading. The novel is satanic not because it is a product of a depraved secular writer who criticises Islam b...
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| Formato: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Lenguaje: | Anglais |
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2024
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| Acceso en línea: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Sumario: | While the West has generally viewed reaction to The Satanic Verses as typifying the backwardness of Islam and championed Rushdie as an icon of free speech, such a binary interpretation is misleading. The novel is satanic not because it is a product of a depraved secular writer who criticises Islam but in its critiques of both fundamentalist Islam and the West’s demonising of the East. Rushdie’s work redefines race, nation, and the abjected devil. |
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