Salman Rushdie -- Social and Political Contexts

• Concord and Discord in Multicultural Societies: The Clash of Cultural Values
• Some Political Origins of Rushdie's Shame
• The Political Context of Shame
• Keith Fisher's The Price of Oil, The Price of Life

  This essay on a UK site places "Britain's current foreign policy towards Iran and Salman Rushdie's situation within the context of the history of British Petroleum's origins as the Anglo-Persian Oil Company."

• Another View of Rushdie's Magic Realism in Midnight's Children

Last modified 7 February 2004