Salman Rushdie : A Critical Interpretation

The present book is a critical and comprehensive study of the history fiction nexus in the works of Salman Rushdie. It presents a ground breaking analysis of Rushdie\'s use of postmodernist techniques, focusing on his depiction of history against a vibrant backdrop of geography, politics, literature and language. It maps the connection between text and context interrogating the constructed images for their ideological contents in the novels of Salman Rushdie. Under the theoretical framework of magic realism intertextuality historiography and deconstruction the book brings to focus the mysterious relationship between reality and truth. The essays present an honest assessment of Rushdie\'s works by creatively engaging with the issues each of them raises.