Salman Rushdie

In 1988 author Salman Rushdie wrote and published The Satanic Verses, causing outrage in the Islamic community due to the perceived criticism of Allah. Because of this, a fatwa was issued against him by Ruhollah Khomeini and he was forced into hiding, separating him from his his family. During his absence he wrote the book Haroun and the Sea of Stories dedicated to his son Zafar, however by establishing an allegory within the novel, Rushdie transforms a children's fantasy, into a platform to share his views on the fatwa. Ruhollah Khomeini held a leadership role in Islam and used his role to establish a theocracy in Iran. Within, the war between the Guppees and the Chupwalas, is a literal war between dark in light as dictated by the fictitious…

Extended Essay Topic Question: How does Salman Rushdie use magical realism in order to explore the links between India and his childhood in the book Midnight’s Children? Abstract Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children is an intricately intractable attempt at capturing the erratic parallel life of the protagonist, Saleem and the political rise and fall of India. The question I aim to answer is: How does Salman Rushdie use magical realism in order to explore the links between India and his…

return home to find that his or her previous struggles had been fixed. For example, after travelling to Kahani, Haroun returns home to find that his once unhappy city finally got their happy ending. This novel shows that all stories are inherently connected; they all spring from other cultures. Rushdie attempts to reinvent the genre by incorporating both European and English storytelling traditions on equal playing fields. He shows how both are interdependent and intertwined (Teverson 161). The…

usage of literary devices, Salman Rushdie explores the freedom of speech in his novel, while metaphorically relating to past experiences in his life. From this, Salman Rushdie narrates the journey of a boy named Haroun, and his quest to reclaim his father, Rashid’s lost storytelling skills, having lost his muse, his wife, Soraya, whom had left him and fled with Mr. Sengupta, the clerk living above them, “Rashid Khalifa, the legendary Ocean of Notion, the fabled Shah of Blah, stood up in front of…

Are stories even more than what we know; just a fairytale that has no meaning? In the beginning of Salman Rushdie’s novel, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, a question arises from the character of Mr. Sengupta, “What’s the use of stories that aren’t even true?” (Rushdie 20). Throughout the story, there are many thoughts in which we can find the answer to this question. Many people may say that there is no use for stories that aren’t real in reason of they do not help us in our daily lives. What…

Salman Rushdie is an Indian-born British writer who has experienced movement from his home to a new place. Rushdie expresses the benefits of migration and how it helps create “hybridity” in a place. Russell Sanders analyzes Rushdie’s essay and has a different opinion. In response to Rushdie’s belief about migration, Sanders’s Staying Put: Making a Home in a Restless World essay, contradicts the opinion of Rushdie’s essay that migration is bad. Through Sanders’s quotes and information he uses in…

The dominance of English language in Indian writing is but an obvious result of British presence in India. The hegemonic governance of British company over India for almost two-hundred years brought English language as most dominating language amongst all the vernacular languages. The 1980s period is recounted as the period of renaissance in Indian writing in English. The recent past years had brought recognition to India and Indian Novelists at the global ground. Salman Rushdie is a pioneer in…

Since the beginning of mankind, people have been moving. People were originally nomads and hunters and gathers. To Salman Rushdie, moving seems as a natural and beneficial thing. He is a writer who left India and moved to England, calls the “effect of mass migrations” as being “the creation of radically new types of human being: people who root themselves in ideas rather than places”. Scott Russell Sanders responded to Rushdie’s claim in Staying Put: Making a Home in a Restless World, in which…

“In the South” written by Salman Rushdie, is a short story about two very normal and similar old men living two normal and similar lives. Senior and Junior had very different backgrounds growing up, yet they somehow ended up in the same place together during their old age. Their lives together were very ordinary, but one day all that changes when the younger of the two men, Junior, falls and dies. The story illustrates the possibility of chance through irony as well as multiple foreshadowing and…

Innocence and Feminity in Salman Rushdie’s, East, West and Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis In Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi shows the struggles from childhood while growing up in Iran to the subsequent encounters in Europe. Salman Rushdie’s “East, West” on the other hand uses fiction and reality and blends the two in its most controversial perspective. Despite the difference in style and writing language, the two books are documented in certain themes with complementing ideologies. The main objective…