Mapping Global Contexts in Salman Rushdie’s The Ground beneath her Feet and Fury
This paper delineates the turn, in Rushdie’s oeuvre, towards the systematic representation of globalized contexts starting with The Ground beneath her Feet and Fury. Both novels have a global setting – India, the Pacific, Mexico, Great Britain, New York – which may be read as the starting point of a...
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2024
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| الوصول للمادة أونلاين: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| الملخص: | This paper delineates the turn, in Rushdie’s oeuvre, towards the systematic representation of globalized contexts starting with The Ground beneath her Feet and Fury. Both novels have a global setting – India, the Pacific, Mexico, Great Britain, New York – which may be read as the starting point of a Jamesonian ‘aesthetic of cognitive mapping’ to make sense of the global world. Rushdie does so through the recurrent themes of icons and cacophony that allow him to weave images and sounds into the textual material. Extra-textual forms take over the traditional devices of storytelling in order to represent a global contemporary world characterized by immediacy, speed and ubiquity. |
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