Salman Rushdie in the Age of Reason: "Us/Them - Translation, Transcription and Identity in Post-Colonial Literary Cultures"
Cross/Cultures 6: Readings in the Post/Colonial Literatures in English, Jan. 1992, pp. 200-207
Amsterdam/Atlanta, GA: Rodopi, 1992
Class, ethnicity, Otherness, and (Indian) Post-Colonial literature are discussed in this article. It also looks at censorship and Islam, and the control of political opposition. "Rushdie could have gone on and on about how the rise of Islamic fundamentalism is in fact an historical reaction to imperialism - how, in fact, the hundreds of years of occidental colonialism and imperialism have smashed the social fabric of Muslim life to the extent that the social critique of religion as an instrument of social control is beyond the pale in most Islamic societies and the institutions of higher learning within it."
ITEM 1992.054 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
The Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie
Harous and the Sea of Stories – Salman Rushdie
Midnight's Children – Salman Rushdie
Saadat Hassan Manto
The Devils of Loudon – Aldous Huxley
Hand on the Sun – Tariq Mehmood
Le The au harem d'Archi Ahmed – Mehedi Cahref
Handsworth Songs – London's Black Audio Film Collective
Ulysses – James Joyce
William Faulkner
Gabriel Garcia Marquez