Shamsie, Kamila. “A long, loving literary line”. theguardian.com, 1 May 2009.
Salman Rushdie
Standard Name: Rushdie, Salman
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Angela Carter | Her literary friends included Lorna Sage
and Salman Rushdie
, a fellow campaigner against the Falklands War. Through her contributions to the London Review of Books she formed a friendship with Susannah Clapp
, an... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Kamila Shamsie | She has named a number of authors with impact on her teenage years, including Kazuo Ishiguro
, Anita Desai
, and Peter Carey |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Christine Brooke-Rose | This sets out to explore the effects of various technological media on the novel genre. It begins with the apparent forcible entry into a story by Jane Austen
of a great German contemporary of Austen:... |
| Literary responses | Anita Desai | Salman Rushdie
called this a magnificent book that brilliantly portrayed the world of male friendship in order to demonstrate how this, too, is a part of the process by which women are excluded from power... |
| Literary responses | Anita Desai | Many critics agree that AD
is a formidable writer, at home in intimate psychological worlds “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 271 |
| Literary responses | Nina Bawden | Auberon Waugh
's review of the book was headed: If only nasty Laura had kept her clothes on . . . . qtd. in “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 207 |
| Occupation | Antonia Fraser | AF
's public work continued after her second marriage. She chaired the Crime Writers' Association
, and became in 1984 a founding trustee of the Authors' Foundation
. When she retired as a trustee she... |
| Occupation | Fay Weldon | In March 1977 FW
was one of a group of writers who travelled in a cultural delegation to Israel. She chaired the Booker Prize panel of judges in 1983, and on her watch the... |
| politics | Harold Pinter | As to international politics, Pinter spoke out against the forcible, USA-backed ousting of President Salvador Allende
of Chile in September 1973. Like his second wife, he was a strong supporter of PEN International
. The... |
| Reception | Rose Tremain | When in 1983 the magazine Granta presented a list of twenty names identified as the Best Young British Novelists, RT
was among them (along with Pat Barker
, Martin Amis
, Salman Rushdie
... |
| Reception | A. S. Byatt | David Jays
, in an article confessing his preference for the current lionesses to the lions among British novelists—a preference, that is, for ASB
, Zadie Smith
, A. L. Kennedy
, Sarah Waters
... |
| Textual Features | Nawal El Saadawi | The Imam rules and tyrannizes over an imaginary island. The rebellious heroine, Bint Allah (which means daughter of God), appears to have been illegitimately fathered by the Imam, and while it seems appropriate to... |
| Textual Production | Angela Carter | Later volumes of stories by AC
were Black Venus's Tale, with woodcuts by Philip Sutton
(1980), and Black Venus (1985). American Ghosts and Old World Wonders was published posthumously in 1993. Burning Your Boats... |
| Textual Production | Angela Carter | In mid-career AC
said she had worked mainly with women as her publishers' editors. Shared gender makes a difference in this relationship, she wrote, even if the reader has zero feminist consciousness. Carter, Angela. “Notes from the Front Line”. On Gender and Writing, edited by Michelene Wandor, Pandora Press, 1983, pp. 69-77. 72 |
| Textual Production | Sylvia Townsend Warner | STW
's short stories were, and continue to be, highly praised by critics and enjoyed by readers. They are very numerous, as well as very diverse in subject matter. Often featuring a blend of realism... |
Timeline
By 15 May 1981: Salman Rushdie published Midnight's Children,...
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By 15 May 1981
Salman Rushdie
published Midnight's Children, a novel in which the midnight in question is the moment of Indian independence from Britain.
Cunningham, Valentine. “Nosing out the Indian reality”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 4076, 15 May 1981, p. 535.
535
By 30 September 1988: Salman Rushdie's postmodernist novel The...
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By 30 September 1988
Salman Rushdie
's postmodernist novel The Satanic Verses, offered, in the form of dreams dreamed by the angel or devil Gibreel or Gabriel, a history and commentary on a land called Jahilia or Jahiliaya.
Irwin, Robert. “Original parables”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 4461, 30 Sept. 1988, p. 1067.
1067
14 February 1989: Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini of Iran declared...
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14 February 1989
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
of Iran declared a fatwa or death sentence against Salman Rushdie
on account of the allegedly blasphemous treatment of the prophet Mohammed in his novel The Satanic Verses.
“1990: Iranian leader upholds Rushdie fatwa”. BBC News: On This Day, 26 Dec. 1990.
12 July 1991: Hitoshi Igarashi, Japanese translator of...
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12 July 1991
Hitoshi Igarashi
, Japanese translator of Salman Rushdie
's controversial novel The Satanic Verses, was found murdered outside his office at Tsukuba University
.
Weisman, Steven R. “Japanese Translator of Rushdie Book Found Slain”. The New York Times, 13 July 1991.
Lyall, Sarah. “Rushdie, Free of Threat, Revels in ’Spontaneity’”. The New York Times, 26 Sept. 1998.
2 June 2003: British Asian writer Monica Ali published...
Women writers item
2 June 2003
British Asian writer Monica Ali
published her first novel, Brick Lane, to resounding success.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Mullan, John. “Public faces and inner spaces”. The Guardian, 12 June 2004, p. Review 32.
Review 32
Smith, David, correspondent. “’It’s your shout, then we can start discussing V S Naipaul’”. The Observer, 15 Aug. 2004, p. 7.
7
O’Neill, Sean. “Asian leaders warn of violence against Brick Lane film”. Times, 22 July 2006, p. 28.
28
Lewis, Paul. “’You sanctimonious philistine’—Rushdie v Greer, the sequel”. The Guardian, 29 July 2006, p. 11.
11
Walter, Natasha. “The book burners do not speak for all of Brick Lane”. The Guardian, 1 Aug. 2006, p. 29.
29
Texts
Carter, Angela, and Salman Rushdie. Burning Your Boats: The Collected Angela Carter: Stories. Chatto and Windus, 1995.
Rushdie, Salman. Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism, 1981-1991. Granta Books, 1991.