Salman Rushdie and the Third World : Myths of the Nation

The dialectic between national literary production and the rise of a group of writers with cosmopolitan sympathies is the aim of this book, concentrating on Rushdie's novels and journalism. It comments on the narrowness with which British literary tradition has been conceived and broadens its scope to include the new writing emerging from Britain's black communities. Front Matter....Pages i-xv National Fictions, Fictional Nations....Pages 1-31 Anti-Colonial Liberalism....Pages 32-58 The Art of Translation....Pages 59-78 The National Longing for Form....Pages 79-117 The Artist as Demagogue....Pages 118-142 Pitting Levity against Gravity....Pages 143-166 Back Matter....Pages 167-203 Timothy Brennan. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 183-192.