Good Advice Is Rarer than Rubies | Critical Overview
Salman Rushdie is frequently studied within the context of postcolonial theory. Unlike most postcolonial writers, however, Rushdie emphasizes a “transnational, cross-lingual process of pollination” in literature as a result of colonialism rather than a response of protest from the former colonized country. As a result, say some scholars, Rushdie does not so much criticize the process of colonialism as critique nationalism itself.
The Satanic Verses gained extensive attention because its publication provoked riots in Islamic countries, bomb threats against its...
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