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The Moor's Last Sigh

Author	: Salman Rushdie
Publisher	: Vintage
Release Date	: 1997-01-14
ISBN 10	: UOM:39015056504353
Pages	: 458 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (55 users)

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Download or read book The Moor's Last Sigh written by Salman Rushdie and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1997-01-14 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moraes Zogoiby offers a revealing account of his family, their evolving fortunes, and the lost world of possibilities in twentieth-century India, detailing a universe of family rifts, greed, dark passions, secrecy, power, and the mysteries of art. Reprint. 100,000 first printing.

The Moor's Last Sigh

Author	: Salman Rushdie
Publisher	: Random House
Release Date	: 2011-08-31
ISBN 10	: 9781409058878
Pages	: 448 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (588 users)

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Download or read book The Moor's Last Sigh written by Salman Rushdie and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-08-31 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Salman Rushdie's greatest novel’ Sunday Times Moraes ‘Moor’ Zogoiby is the last in line of a crooked and fantastical dynasty of spice merchants and crime lords from Cochin. He is also a compulsive storyteller and an exile. As we travel with him on a route that takes him from India to Spain, he spins his labyrinthine family tale of mad passions and volcanic family hatreds, of titanic matriarchs and their mesmerised offspring, of premature deaths and curses that strike beyond the grave. But does the India of his parents – populated by extravagant artists, piratical gatekeepers and mysterious lost paintings – still exist? And will he ever discover what became of his fiery and tempestuous mother? Moraes’ epic quest to uncover the truth of the past is a love story to a vanishing world, and also its last hurrah. **One of the BBC’s 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**

The last sigh of the Moor, a poem

Author	: George Hughes
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1829
ISBN 10	: OXFORD:600011681
Pages	: 168 pages
Rating	: 4.D/5 ( users)

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"New" Exoticisms

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Publisher	: BRILL
Release Date	: 2022-04-19
ISBN 10	: 9789004456891
Pages	: 280 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (568 users)

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Download or read book "New" Exoticisms written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All civilisations have both feared and been fascinated by what lies beyond their limits, and have to a greater or lesser extent construed their “others” as exotics. Given that, even in its most consumerist fashion, the adoption of the exotic goes back a long way, what, then —if anything— is new in contemporary versions of exoticism? This volume attempts to offer some answers to this question. The first of its three sections serves as an extended introduction to the concept and practice of exoticism, considering the phenomenon from a number of theoretical and critical positions, explicitly examining —sometimes via significant examples— the particular attributes of exoticism. The second and third sections are more strictly text-based, relying on the analysis of specific instances of film in the former and literature in the latter, in order to tease out some specific uses of the exotic –whether ethnic, gendered, sexual or other. This volume will be of interest to scholars and students working in the fields of representation, cultural theory, postcolonialism, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, cinema and literature.

Salman Rushdie

Author	: Sabrina Hassumani
Publisher	: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Release Date	: 2002
ISBN 10	: 0838639348
Pages	: 168 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (48 users)

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Download or read book Salman Rushdie written by Sabrina Hassumani and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His impulse, instead, is to deconstruct the colonizer/colonized binary and in doing so attempt to clear a "new" postmodern space."--BOOK JACKET.

Salman Rushdie

Author	: Mohit Kumar Ray
Publisher	: Atlantic Publishers & Dist
Release Date	: 2006
ISBN 10	: 8126906316
Pages	: 240 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (16 users)

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Download or read book Salman Rushdie written by Mohit Kumar Ray and published by Atlantic Publishers & Dist. This book was released on 2006 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Salman Rushdie (1947 ) Has Emerged Over The Years As One Of The Most Controversial Figures Of Our Times Who Excites Contrary Feelings. But Whether Admired Or Criticized, The Fact Remains That Rushdie, With His Commitment To Struggle For Freedom Of Expression, For Speech To The Silenced, For Power To The Disempowered, Is A Writer Who Cannot Be Ignored.One Of The Major Preoccupations Of Rushdie S Art Is The Issue Of Migrant Identity. Many Of His Characters Are Migrants Drifting From Shore To Shore In Search Of Some Imaginary Homeland , And Obviously The Author Identifies Himself With His Migrant Personae. Search For Identity Is Perhaps The One Recurring Theme In Rushdie S Works, And The Themes Of Double Identity , Divided Selves And Shadow Figures Persist In His Writings As Correlative For The Schismatic/Dual Identity Of The Migrant, As Well As The Necessary Confusion And Ambiguity Of The Migrant Existence. Rushdie Describes The World From This Unique Point Of View Of The Migrant Narrator. He Is Also Conscious Of His Role In This Regard In Re-Describing The World, And Thus Creating A New Vision Of Art And Life.By Exercising What He Describes As The Migrant Writer S Privilege To Choose His Parents Rushdie Has Chosen His Inheritance From A Vast Repertoire Of Literary Parents, Including Cervantes, Kafka, Melville, Et Al.His Novels And Stories Derive Their Special Flavour From The Author S Superb Handling Of The Characteristic Postmodern Devices Like Magic Realism, Palimpsest, Ekphrasis, Etc. Rushdie Has Been Rightly Compared With Such Literary Innovators Stalwarts Of Our Times As Gunter Grass, Milan Kundera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Et Al. Readers Of The Present Volumes Will Be Taken Round The World Of Rushdie By Erudite Scholars Whose Well-Researched, Perceptive Articles Will Add Substantially To Their Enjoyment Of These Fantastic Imaginary Homelands .

Salman Rushdie

Author	: Catherine Cundy
Publisher	: Manchester University Press
Release Date	: 1996
ISBN 10	: 071904409X
Pages	: 166 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (9 users)

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Download or read book Salman Rushdie written by Catherine Cundy and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary criticism of Rushdie's work outside of special journals and periodicals.

Salman Rushdie and Visual Culture

Author	: Ana Cristina Mendes
Publisher	: Routledge
Release Date	: 2012-05-22
ISBN 10	: 9781136593581
Pages	: 263 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (935 users)

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Download or read book Salman Rushdie and Visual Culture written by Ana Cristina Mendes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-22 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Salman Rushdie’s novels, images are invested with the power to manipulate the plotline, to stipulate actions from the characters, to have sway over them, seduce them, or even lead them astray. Salman Rushdie and Visual Culture sheds light on this largely unremarked – even if central – dimension of the work of a major contemporary writer. This collection brings together, for the first time and into a coherent whole, research on the extensive interplay between the visible and the readable in Rushdie’s fiction, from one of the earliest novels – Midnight’s Children (1981) – to his latest – The Enchantress of Florence (2008).

The Cervantean Heritage

Author	: J. A. G. Ardila
Publisher	: MHRA
Release Date	: 2009
ISBN 10	: 9781906540036
Pages	: 289 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (4 users)

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Download or read book The Cervantean Heritage written by J. A. G. Ardila and published by MHRA. This book was released on 2009 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The contributors to this volume now offer a comprehensive and innovative picture of this reception history, discussing the English translations of Cervantes's works, the literary genres which developed in his shadow, and the best-known authors who consciously emulated him. Cervantes emerges as perhaps the greatest outside influence on English literature since the Renaissance." --Book Jacket.

A Companion to Indian Fiction in English

Author	: Pier Paolo Piciucco
Publisher	: Atlantic Publishers & Dist
Release Date	: 2004
ISBN 10	: 8126903104
Pages	: 454 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (4 users)

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Download or read book A Companion to Indian Fiction in English written by Pier Paolo Piciucco and published by Atlantic Publishers & Dist. This book was released on 2004 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After The Pioneer Works By Scholars Such As Naik, Narasimhaiah And Mukherjee, And The Thirty Years Of Silence Which Followed Their Ground-Breaking Achievements, The Companion Appears On The Scene Striving To Reinvigorate The Tradition Of Panoramic Studies Of Indian Literature In English. In The Intervening Period, Indian Fiction In English Has Become Of Paramount Importance In The Wide Context Of Postcolonial Studies: An Emergent Crop Of Novelists Belonging To The So-Called New Generation Has Colourfully Paved The Way Towards New Artistic Horizons, Re-Interpreting Western-Derived Literary Models With Inventive Approaches. Complementary To Their Role There Is The Articulate Presence Of A Host Of Indian Scholars Who In Recent Years Have Significantly Influenced The Course Of This Analysis And Have Vitally Contributed To Enlarging Its Scope Well Beyond The Original Boundaries Of Studies In Literary Criticism.The Companion, Therefore, Addresses The Exigencies Of Critics, Teachers And Students Alike All Those Who Need To Find Quick Points Of Reference In This Wide Field Of Studies By Relying On A Team Of Authoritative Collaborators And Specialists From All Over The World. Great Care Was Taken Not Only In Selecting Collaborators On The Basis Of Their Specialisation But Also Taking Into Account Their Cultural Background In Relation To The Author They Were To Discuss. The Book In Fact Has Been Organised To Have What Have Been Deemed To Be The Most Representative Authors In Indian Fiction Discussed In An Essay-Long Chapter Each, Structured To Highlight Crucial Points Such As Biographical Details, Novels And Critical Reception. Each Chapter Includes A Final Bibliography Complete With Primary And Secondary Sources, Enabling The Scholar To Have Immediate Orientation On Various Specific Topics. Finally, The Book Has An Innovative Section, With Synopses Of Novels, Planned To Allow Our Readers To Immediately Place The Authors Analysed Within The Panorama Of Indian Fiction In English. The Over 400 Synopses Included Principally Introduce Works Written By The Novelists Discussed At Length In The Previous Chapters But, Along With Them, It Is Also Possible To Find Summaries Of Works By Authors Who, Although Contributing In A Significant Way To The Development Of Forms And Techniques, Do Not Feature In The First Part.

Translating Orients

Author	: Timothy Weiss
Publisher	: University of Toronto Press
Release Date	: 2004-01-01
ISBN 10	: 0802089585
Pages	: 274 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (85 users)

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Download or read book Translating Orients written by Timothy Weiss and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weiss examines texts that reference Asian, North African, or Middle Eastern societies and their imaginaries, and, equally important, engage questions of individual and communal identity that issue from transformative encounters.

Shifting Continents/colliding Cultures

Author	: Ralph J. Crane
Publisher	: Rodopi
Release Date	: 2000
ISBN 10	: 9042012617
Pages	: 262 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (17 users)

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Download or read book Shifting Continents/colliding Cultures written by Ralph J. Crane and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2000 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the aftermath of British colonialism on the Indian subcontinent and Sri Lanka, including the resulting Diaspora. The essays also examine zones of intersection between theories of postcolonial writing and models of Diaspora and the nation.

Reconstructing Hybridity

Author	: Joel Kuortti
Publisher	: Rodopi
Release Date	: 2007-01
ISBN 10	: 9789042021419
Pages	: 330 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (214 users)

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Download or read book Reconstructing Hybridity written by Joel Kuortti and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2007-01 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary collection of critical articles seeks to reassess the concept of hybridity and its relevance to post-colonial theory and literature. The challenging articles written by internationally acclaimed scholars discuss the usefulness of the term in relation to such questions as citizenship, whiteness studies and transnational identity politics. In addition to developing theories of hybridity, the articles in this volume deal with the role of hybridity in a variety of literary and cultural phenomena in geographical settings ranging from the Pacific to native North America. The collection pays particular attention to questions of hybridity, migrancy and diaspora.

Convergences and Interferences

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Publisher	: BRILL
Release Date	: 2016-09-12
ISBN 10	: 9789004333208
Pages	: 293 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (332 users)

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Download or read book Convergences and Interferences written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-09-12 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does one imagine plurality? How does one find new strategies for writing diversity and polyphony? How does one read the most challenging creative and critical works of the present time?This bi-lingual volume of twelve English and eight French papers proposes to breach linguistic critical frontiers by placing careful analysis of texts from different language traditions in a multi-lingual and multi-cultural dialogue. In this collection of theoretically and politically aware close readings of contemporary cultural production, the focus of analysis rests on the multiple and complex global convergences and interferences of cultural influences. The collection foregrounds the work of innovative writers who seek to express the ungraspable presence of cultural “newness” at the same time as situating themselves in the richness of detail of local lives. This volume, most particularly, finds a balance of critical approach between the everyday attempts at negotiation and survival, and the insight brought to the reader by postcolonial, syncretic and feminist theoretical analysis.

Offspring Fictions

Author	: Matt Kimmich
Publisher	: Rodopi
Release Date	: 2008-01
ISBN 10	: 9789042024908
Pages	: 265 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (249 users)

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Download or read book Offspring Fictions written by Matt Kimmich and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2008-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offspring Fictions: Salman Rushdie¿s Family Novels is the first book-length study that examines families and especially the parent-child relationship in Rushdie¿s core works. It argues that Sigmund Freud¿s concept of the family and the author¿s variations thereon are central to a full understanding of the four novels Midnight¿s Children, Shame, the controversial The Satanic Verses and The Moor¿s Last Sigh, a quasi-sequel to Rushdie¿s first success. Through close readings that make use of a variety of critical approaches, Offspring Fictions provides a sustained examination of how the parents and children that people Rushdie¿s fictions reflect the larger issues his work is concerned with: nationalism, religion, history and authorship. Aimed primarily at academics and students, but also of interest to the general reader, Offspring Fictions provides a clear and insightful analysis of Rushdie¿s family tetralogy. Contents Acknowledgements Rushdie¿s Tetralogy Introduction Chapter 1: Reading the Novels Midnight¿s Children Chapter 2: The Child Is Father of the Man: Creating Progeny in Midnight¿s Children Chapter 3: Days Full of Potential Mothers and Possible Fathers: Saleem Sinai¿s Multiple Family Romances Chapter 4: ¿The Mother-Goddess In Her Most Terrible Aspect¿: The Murder of Childhood and Dialogue Shame Chapter 5: Sins of the Parents: Monstrous Mothers and Absent Fathers Chapter 6: ¿Discrete Parameters of a Family Squabble¿: Family Antagonisms The Satanic Verses Chapter 7: Absent Fathers and Fallen Sons: The Satanic Verses Chapter 8: ¿Pleasechu Meechu, Hopeyu Guessma Nayym¿: Giving a Voice to Satanic Doubt The Moor¿s Last Sigh Chapter 9: Uprooting the Family Tree: The Moor¿s Last Sigh Chapter 10: Conflicting Parents, Contesting Authors: Who Writes the Moor? Chapter 11: From Ganesh to Dumbo: The First and the Last of the Family Novels Select Bibliography Index

Borderlands

Author	: Gesellschaft für die Neuen Englischsprachigen Literaturen. Annual Conference
Publisher	: Rodopi
Release Date	: 1999
ISBN 10	: 9042004681
Pages	: 314 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (81 users)

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Download or read book Borderlands written by Gesellschaft für die Neuen Englischsprachigen Literaturen. Annual Conference and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1999 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boundaries, borderlines, limits on the one hand and rites of passage, contact zones, in-between spaces on the other have attracted renewed interest in a broad variety of cultural discourses after a long period of decenterings and delimitations in numerous fields of social, psychological, and intellectual life. Anthropological dimensions of the subject and its multifarious ways of world-making represent the central challenge among the concerns of the humanities. The role of literature and the arts in the formation of cultural and personal identities, theoretical and political approaches to the relation between self and other, the familiar and the foreign, have become key issues in literary and cultural studies; forms of expressivity and expression and question of mediation as well as new enquiries into ethics have characterized the intellectual energies of the past decade. The aim of Borderlands is to represent a variety of approaches to questions of border crossing and boundary transgression; approaches from different angles and different disciplines, but all converging in their own way on the post-colonial paradigm. Topics discussed include globalization, cartography and ontology, transitional identity, ecocritical sensibility, questions of the application of post-coloniality, gender and sexuality, and attitudes towards space and place. As well as studies of the cinema of the settler colonies, the films of Neil Jordan, and 'Othering' in Canadian sports journalism, there are treatments of the Nigerian novel, South African prison memoirs, and African women's writing. Authors examined include Elizabeth Bowen, Bruce Chatwin, Mohamed Choukri, Nuruddin Farah, Jamaica Kincaid, Pauline Melville, Bharati Mukherjee, Michael Ondaatje, and Leslie Marmon Silko.

HSA Heritage Auctions Rare Books Auction Catalog #6030

Author	: James Gannon
Publisher	: Heritage Capital Corporation
Release Date	: 2009-09
ISBN 10	: 1599673940
Pages	: 314 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (4 users)

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Download or read book HSA Heritage Auctions Rare Books Auction Catalog #6030 written by James Gannon and published by Heritage Capital Corporation. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: