TY - BOOK ID - 118344823 TI - Salman Rushdie in context PY - 2023 SN - 9781009082624 1009082620 9781316514146 9781009077408 1316514145 1009085115 PB - Cambridge ;New York, NY Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Rushdie, Salman KW - Criticism and interpretation. KW - Political and social views. KW - Rushdī, Salmān KW - Rüşdı̂, Salman KW - Ruždi, Salman KW - Salamāna Raśdī KW - Raśdī, Salamāna KW - Рушди, Салман KW - רושדי, סלמאן KW - רושדי, סלמן KW - رشدى، سلمان KW - Anton, Joseph UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:118344823 AB - Salman Rushdie in Context discusses Rushdie's life and work in the context of the multiple geographies he has inhabited and the wider socio-cultural contexts in which his writing is emerging, published and read. This book reveals the evolving political trajectory around transnationalism, multiculturalism and its discontents, so prominently engaged with by Salman Rushdie in relation to South Asia, its diasporas, Britain, and the USA in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. Focused on the aesthetic, biographical, cultural, creative, historical and literary contexts of his works, the book reveals his deep engagement with processes of decolonization, emergent nationalisms in South Asia, Europe and the USA, and diasporic identity constructions and how they have been affected by globalisation. The book traces how, through his fiction and non-fiction, Rushdie has profoundly shaped the discussion of important questions of global citizenship and migration that continue to resonate today. ER -