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.
Language
English
Pages
203
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Release
January 01, 1989
ISBN
0312033087
ISBN 13
9780312033088
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.