Salman Rushdie's Shame -- Literary Relations: Influence, Confluence, Analogy

Alan Duff

• Postcolonial Premises: Refusing to Wipe the Slate Clean in Once Were Warriors, In Custody, and Shame

Kazuo Ishiguro

• Dueling Stories in Rushdie & Ishiguro
• Contrasting Uses of the Narrator: An Analysis of Rushdie and Ishiguro
• Rushdie, Ishiguro, and the Art of Story-Telling
• Shame as the Impetus for Stories: Rushdie, Swift & Ishiguro

Timothy Mo

• Shame and Victmization in Rushdie and Mo

Sara Suleri

• Feminizing Narrative and Landscape: Images of Women in Three Postcolonial Texts
• The Postcolonial Mother Country
• "An Empty Vessel"
• Displacement in Shame and Meatless Days

Graham Swift

• The Conversational Narrator in Shame and Waterland
• Magic Realism and Self-Conscious Writing in Waterland and Shame
• Connections between Waterland and Shame
• Mary in Waterland and Omar in Shame : History, Humanity, and History
• The East Wind and the Loo in Waterland and Shame
• Feminizing Narrative and Landscape: Images of Women in Three Postcolonial Texts

Last Modified: 18 March, 2002