The satanic verses and the occidentalism of Salman Rushdie

This paper is an inquiry into the critical tenability of the positioning of Salman Rushdie as brown sahib and the coincident reading of The Satanic Verses as an Orientalist attack on Islam. The paper opens with an exposition of Rushdie's thematic preoccupation with the identity of the...

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Main Author: Sobhan, Zafar
Language:English
Published: 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/3874