Salman Rushdie : new critical insights

V. 1. Grimus and the alchemical tradition / Margareta Petersson ; Allegories of fiction : Grimus and Haroun and the sea of stories / Joel Kuortii ; The (un)making of Saladin Chamcha : Rushdie's subversion of the Bildungsroman / Shaul Bassi ; Pessoptimism : satire and the Menippean grotesque in Rushdie's Midnight's children / John Clement Ball ; The (hi)story of Padma's 1001 different faces / Pier Paolo Piciucco ; Centres and margins : Shame's 'other' nation /Syed Mujeebuddin ; The politics of repression and resistance in Salman Rushdie's Shame / Neluka Silva ; Rushdie and his world : the carnivalesque, masquerade, and grotesque realism in his fiction / Brian Mahoney

v. 2. Schema disruption in the re-writing of history : Salman Rushdie's East, West / Celia M. Wallhead ; Origin, origins, originality : Salman Rushdie's East, West, David Malouf's antipodes, and Wilson Harris' The womb of space / Elsa Linguanti ; Acid in the nation's bloodstream : satire, violence, and the Indian body politic in Salman Rushdie's The moor's last sigh / John Clement Ball ; A post-modern, provocative, metropolitan Mother India : Aurora Zogoiby of Rushdie's The moor's last sigh / P. Balaswamy ; The subversive sub-text of spices in Salman Rushdie's The moor's last sigh / Celia M. Wallhead ; Rushdie's un-Indian music : The ground beneath her feet / Christopher Rollason ; "Searching for a sense of self" : postmodernist theories of identity and the novels of Salman Rushdie / Michael Hensen and MIke Petry ; Rushdie's affiliation with Dickens / Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère ; "Old stable ego of the character" : the politics of identity in Rushdie's fiction / Michael Hensen