Salman Rushdie -- Theme and Subject

• Postcolonial Theory
  • (More) Problems with the Term Postcolonial
  • Rushdie, Naipaul, and Blurring Postcolonial Borders
• Women and Gender
  • Women and the Subject of Rushdie's Shame
  • Women of Pakistan and Bangladesh in Salman Rushdie's Shame
  • The Origin of Sufiya Zenobia in a London Murder
  • Women and Family Stories in Rushdie's Shame
  • Super-Powerful Shaktis : Durga and Parvati

• History and Culture
  • Rushdie on Names, History, and Pakistan
  • Time, History, and Narrative in Rushdie's Shame
  • Rushdie on Roots, Rootlessness, Migration, on Being Between
  • Raman Fielding/Bal Thackeray: Historical Rama-i-fication
  • Religious Uncertainty in Midnight's Children

• Narrative and Genre
  • The Bizarre and the Miraculous in Rushdie's Fiction
  • Magic Realism and Self-Conscious Writing in Waterland andShame
  • Shame as the Impetus for Stories: Rushdie, Swift & Ishiguro
  • Rushdie, Ishiguro, and the Art of Story-Telling
  • Dueling Stories in Rushdie and Ishiguro

• Image and Symbol
  • Rushdie, Satire, and Alchemy
  • Spit and Memory
  • Pickles in Midnight's Children
  • Identity through Bollywood cinema : The "reel" or "real" zone?
  • Fragmentation in Rushdie's Midnight's Children

Last modified 10 december 2003