Dec 30, 2009

Good Advice Is Rarer than Rubies | Bibliography

Erickson, John. 1998. Islam and Postcolonial Narrative. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Erickson analyzes the narrative strategies Rushdie and other postcolonial writers use to explore the encounter between Western and Islamic values as well as to discuss the authors’ use of Islam in their fiction.

Gurnah, Abdulrazak, ed. 2007. The Cambridge Companion to Salman Rushdie. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. This collection of essays provides thematic readings as well as detailed interpretations of Rushdie’s work. It also discusses his importance...