Changing spaces

Salman Rushdie's mapping of post-colonial territories

Frederik Tygstrup

pp. 198-213

in: Attiede Lange, Gail Fincham, Jeremy Hawthorn, Jakob Lothe, Attie de Lange (eds), Literary landscapes, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008

Abstract

Salman Rushdie is a writer of an expanding world. The settings of his novels — whether in India, England, Pakistan, USA, Kashmir, or South America — are all deeply implicated in the predicaments of intensified global exchange. Most of Rushdie's characters are migrants who follow the tides of their contemporary social processes and find themselves caught up in between different social and cultural settings, between the roots and the ramifications of different historical genealogies. The histories of their lives take place in spaces undergoing processes of radical change, just as their lives are changing the spaces in which they unfold.

Cited authors

Rushdie Salman