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  1. 1. THE POLITICS OF A CHILDREN’S BOOK Haroun and the Sea of Stories

    Kandidat-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Författare :Safija Zuko Turkovic; [2018-09-19]
    Nyckelord :Salman Rushdie; fatwa; post colonialism; totalitarianism;

    Sammanfattning : Rushdie’s Haroun and the Sea of Stories is a multifunctional tale, representing and arguing for, among other things, political expression, opposition to censorship and not least a movement for free speech. Disguised as a children’s book, Haroun raises many issues central for Rushdie the author after he had been censored by a fatwa issued against him as a consequence of publishing the religious satire The Satanic Verses. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Constructions of Masculinity in Salman Rushdie’s Novel ​The Satanic Verses

    Kandidat-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Författare :Malin Pettersson; [2017]
    Nyckelord :The Satanic Verses; Salman Rushdie; Constructed masculinity; Masculinity studies;

    Sammanfattning : This literary analysis focuses on gendered constructions of masculinity in The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie. The main argument is that masculinity is a construction of gender much like femininity. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Winding Back the Clocks : History and fiction in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children

    Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan Dalarna/Engelska

    Författare :Nuno Berkeley Cotter; [2017]
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  5. 4. The Beauty and the Beast : Magical Realism in Salman Rushdie’s Shame

    Kandidat-uppsats, Södertörns högskola/Institutionen för kultur och lärande

    Författare :Amina Afzal; [2015]
    Nyckelord :Salman Rushdie; Shame; Aijaz Ahmad; Judith Butler; Heidi Hartman; Marxism; Feminism; the Beauty and the Beast; Psychoanalysis.;

    Sammanfattning : Mild psychological effects, such as sleep-deprivation, on an oppressed and tortured human being can be characterized as “normal”. However, Shame by Salman Rushdie uses magical realist style to describe the psychological effects of shame in a patriarchal society which is based on capitalistic class values. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Hegemony and power structures in Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses

    Magister-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetik

    Författare :Alireza Pourshahbadinzadeh; [2015]
    Nyckelord :Salman Rushdie; The Satanic Verses; cultural hegemony; religious hegemony; structural violence; social injustice; racial discrimination; migrancy;

    Sammanfattning : Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Versesis one of the most controversial postcolonial novels, which among a plethora of themes seems to mainly focus on the notion of hegemonic power. The Satanic Verses can partly be read as a denunciation of the British hegemony in which social injustice, racial discrimination and violence, in its different forms, exerted upon marginalized and stigmatized people (such as non-European expatriates) are legitimized by the dominant group and understood as something conventional and normal by the subjugated people. LÄS MER