Fiction Fact And The Fatwa

Author : Carmel Bedford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1870798961

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Fiction, fact and the Fatwa by Carmel Bedford Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Censorship
ISBN : 1870798910

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Fiction, Fact, and the Fatwa by Anonim Pdf

Introduction and foreword - revised

Author : Carmel Bedford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Censorship
ISBN : UCBK:C058100863

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Moving mountains by Frances D'Souza

Author : Salman Rushdie
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2000-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0312270828

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The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie Pdf

Just before dawn one winter's morning, a hijacked jetliner explodes above the English Channel. Through the falling debris, two figures, Gibreel Farishta, the biggest star in India, and Saladin Chamcha, an expatriate returning from his first visit to Bombay in fifteen years, plummet from the sky, washing up on the snow-covered sands of an English beach, and proceed through a series of metamorphoses, dreams, and revelations.

Author : Carmel Bedford,Article 19 (Organization)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Censorship
ISBN : 1902598164

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Fiction, Fact and the Fatwa by Carmel Bedford,Article 19 (Organization) Pdf

Author : Madelena Gonzalez
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004487697

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Fiction after the Fatwa by Madelena Gonzalez Pdf

Fiction after the Fatwa: Salman Rushdie and the Charm of Catastrophe proposes for the first time an examination of what Rushdie has achieved as a writer since the fourteenth of February 1989, the date of the fatwa. This study argues that his constant questioning of fictional form and the language used to articulate it have opened up new opportunities and further possibilities for writing in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Through close readings and intensive textual analysis, arranged chronologically, Fiction after the Fatwa provides a thought-provoking reflection on the writer’s achievements over the last thirteen years. Aimed principally at academics and students, but also of interest to the general reader, it engages with the specific nature of the post-fatwa fiction as it moves from the fairy-tale world of Haroun and the Sea of Stories to the heartbreaking post-realism of Fury.

Author : Salman Rushdie
Publisher : Random House
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780679643883

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Joseph Anton by Salman Rushdie Pdf

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY San Francisco Chronicle • Newsweek/The Daily Beast • The Seattle Times • The Economist • Kansas City Star • BookPage On February 14, 1989, Valentine’s Day, Salman Rushdie was telephoned by a BBC journalist and told that he had been “sentenced to death” by the Ayatollah Khomeini. For the first time he heard the word fatwa. His crime? To have written a novel called The Satanic Verses, which was accused of being “against Islam, the Prophet and the Quran.” So begins the extraordinary story of how a writer was forced underground, moving from house to house, with the constant presence of an armed police protection team. He was asked to choose an alias that the police could call him by. He thought of writers he loved and combinations of their names; then it came to him: Conrad and Chekhov—Joseph Anton. How do a writer and his family live with the threat of murder for more than nine years? How does he go on working? How does he fall in and out of love? How does despair shape his thoughts and actions, how and why does he stumble, how does he learn to fight back? In this remarkable memoir Rushdie tells that story for the first time; the story of one of the crucial battles, in our time, for freedom of speech. He talks about the sometimes grim, sometimes comic realities of living with armed policemen, and of the close bonds he formed with his protectors; of his struggle for support and understanding from governments, intelligence chiefs, publishers, journalists, and fellow writers; and of how he regained his freedom. It is a book of exceptional frankness and honesty, compelling, provocative, moving, and of vital importance. Because what happened to Salman Rushdie was the first act of a drama that is still unfolding somewhere in the world every day. Praise for Joseph Anton “A harrowing, deeply felt and revealing document: an autobiographical mirror of the big, philosophical preoccupations that have animated Mr. Rushdie’s work throughout his career.”—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times “A splendid book, the finest . . . memoir to cross my desk in many a year.”—Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post “Thoughtful and astute . . . an important book.”—USA Today “Compelling, affecting . . . demonstrates Mr. Rushdie’s ability as a stylist and storytelle. . . . [He] reacted with great bravery and even heroism.”—The Wall Street Journal “Gripping, moving and entertaining . . . nothing like it has ever been written.”—The Independent (UK) “A thriller, an epic, a political essay, a love story, an ode to liberty.”—Le Point (France) “Action-packed . . . in a literary class by itself . . . Like Isherwood, Rushdie’s eye is a camera lens —firmly placed in one perspective and never out of focus.”—Los Angeles Review of Books “Unflinchingly honest . . . an engrossing, exciting, revealing and often shocking book.”—de Volkskrant (The Netherlands) “One of the best memoirs you may ever read.”—DNA (India) “Extraordinary . . . Joseph Anton beautifully modulates between . . . moments of accidental hilarity, and the higher purpose Rushdie saw in opposing—at all costs—any curtailment on a writer’s freedom.”—The Boston Globe

Author : Salman Rushdie
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780735279353

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Languages of Truth by Salman Rushdie Pdf

From “Best of the Booker” winner Salman Rushdie, an incisive and inspiring collection of non-fiction essays, criticism and speeches that takes readers on a thrilling journey through the evolution of language and culture. Gathering pieces written between 2003 and 2020, including several never previously in print, Languages of Truth chronicles a period of momentous cultural shifts. Across a wide variety of subjects, Rushdie delves into the nature of storytelling as a deeply human need, and what emerges is a love letter to literature itself. Throughout, Rushdie shares his personal encounters, on the page and in person, with storytellers from Shakespeare and Cervantes to Samuel Beckett, Eudora Welty, and Toni Morrison, and revels in the creative lines that can join art and life. Always attuned to the malleability of language, Rushdie considers the nature of truth, and looks anew at migration, multiculturalism and censorship. Written with the author’s signature wit and energy, Languages of Truth offers pleasure and insight in equal measure, confirming Rushdie’s place as one of the most original and important thinkers of our time.

Author : Robert Jewett,John Shelton Lawrence
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2004-06-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0802828590

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Captain America and the Crusade Against Evil by Robert Jewett,John Shelton Lawrence Pdf

Grasping this vision honored by Judaism, Christianity, and Islam alike includes recognizing the dangers of zealous violence, the illusions of current crusading, and the promise of peaceful coexistence under international law.

Author : Steve MacDonogh,Article 19 (Organization)
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0803281986

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The Rushdie Letters by Steve MacDonogh,Article 19 (Organization) Pdf

In February 1989 Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini of Iran announced that Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses, and "all involved in its publication who were aware of its content, are sentenced to death." Anyone who died in the cause of killing Rushdie, he said, would be "regarded as a martyr and go directly to heaven."ø The death sentence?or fatwa?quickly drew blood. Bookshops in London, Oslo, and Sydney were firebombed. Five people were killed and a hundred wounded when demonstrators attacked the U. S. embassy in Islamabad. In Bombay, twelve rioters were shot dead. The Italian translator of The Satanic Verses was stabbed viciously and the Japanese translator was stabbed to death. In Berkeley, bombs were thrown in Cody?s Bookstore and Waldenbooks. Fifth Avenue in New York was sealed off after a bookshop received a bomb threat. In The Rushdie Letters twenty-six internationally renowned authors respond to the most extreme example of censorship in modern times. Also included is Rushdie?s reply to their letters, his essay on exile, "One Thousand Days in a Balloon," and a chronology of the fatwa.

Author : Lois Parkinson Zamora,Wendy B. Faris
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0822316404

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Magical Realism by Lois Parkinson Zamora,Wendy B. Faris Pdf

On magical realism in literature

Author : Jacky Trevane
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781444753158

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Fatwa by Jacky Trevane Pdf

Jacky was twenty-three when she arrived in Egypt for a holiday with her boyfriend, Dave. Little did she know that an innocent holiday would result in a horror beyond her imagination. Separated from Dave in a bustling street, Jacky fell and twisted her ankle, only to be swept up by a handsome, chivalrous Egyptian called Omar. It was love at first sight. Jacky spent those ten days living with the family - sharing a bed with Omar's sister - irresistibly attracted to Omar. Swept away by her infatuation she married him and converted to Islam before returning to England to her parents. Returning to Cairo against her parents' advice but full of hopes and plans, Jacky's dream turned into a nightmare. As a blue-eyed blonde she was never going to fit in with life in a poor suburb where the women walked at all times with their heads bowed. During the next eight years she suffered non-stop physical and emotional abuse. She had to escape with her two little girls but how? This tense story never quite ends. Even now, Jacky is living in the shadow of a death threat. A fatwa is issued legitimately under Islamic law to a Muslim woman who leaves her husband. Jacky to protect herself and her daughters minute by minute, day by day, never quite sure what may be around the corner...

Author : Damian Grant
Publisher : Northcote House Pub Limited
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780746311622

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Salman Rushdie by Damian Grant Pdf

Salman Rushdie is one of the most widely discussed and controversial of contemporary writers, particularly since the publication of 'The Satanic Verses'. This new edition covers all of Rushdie's work up to the present, and provides an account of the complex issues raised by the response to 'The Satanic Verses'.

Author : Jan Alber,Alice Bell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000388459

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Fact and Fiction in Contemporary Narratives by Jan Alber,Alice Bell Pdf

This book explores the complex interrelationship between fact and fiction in narratives of the twenty-first century. Current cultural theory observes a cultural shift away from postmodernism to new forms of expression. Rather than a radical break from the postmodern, however, postmodernist techniques are repurposed to express a new sincerity, a purposeful self-reflexivity, a contemporary sense of togetherness and an associated commitment to reality. In what the editors consider to be one manifestation of this general tendency, this book explores the ways in which contemporary texts across different media play with the boundary between fact and fiction. This includes the examination of novels, autobiography, autofiction, film, television, mockumentary, digital fiction, advertising campaigns and media hoaxes. The chapters engage with theories of what comes after postmodernism and analyse the narratological, stylistic and/or semiotic devices on which such texts rely. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the European Journal of English Studies.

Author : Brian Massumi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2005-07-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134557523

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A Shock to Thought by Brian Massumi Pdf

We are the leading publishers of quality commentaries on Deleuze & Guattari Brian Massumi is the author of one of the biggest selling books on Deleuze & Guattari and translator of the famous A Thousand Plateaus - his name will carry this collection Deleuze & Guattari sell well in cultural studies and film studies as well as comparative literature The collection boasts essays by an international mix of well known Deleuze & Guattari commentators Includes an interview with Guattari