Salman Rushdie and Visual Culture

Description

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).

Contents

1. Introduction: Salman Rushdie’s "Epico-Mythico-Tragico-Comico-Super-Sexy-High-Masala-Art," or Considerations on Undisciplining Boundaries Ana Cristina Mendes 2. Salman Rushdie / Anish Kapoor / Tom Phillips: Dialogue across the Lines of Text and Image Andrew Teverson 3. Beyond the Visible: Secularism and Postcolonial Modernity in The Moor’s Last Sigh, Jamelie Hassan’s Trilogy and Anish Kapoor’s Blood Bath/Blood Relations Stephen Morton 4. In Search for Lost Portraits: The Moor’s Last Sigh and The Lost Portrait Joel Kuortti 5. Paint, Patronage, Power and the Translator’s Visibility in The Moor’s Last Sigh and The Enchantress of Florence Jenni Ramone 6. Show and Tell: Midnight’s Children and John Everett Millais’s "The Boyhood of Raleigh" Neil ten Kortenaar 7. "Nobody from Bombay should be without a basic film vocabulary": Midnight’s Children and Indian Popular Cinema Florian Stadtler 8. Salman Rushdie, the Film Critic Ruvani Ranasinha 9. "A Distorted, Incompetent Piece of Trash": International Guerillas and the Rushdie Affair Iain Robert Smith 10. Visual Technologies in Salman Rushdie’s Fiction: Envisioning the Present in the "Imagological Age" Cristina Sandru 11. Mirror Canvases: Artistic and Intertextual Re-Configurations of the Urban Trope in The Moor’s Last Sigh Vassilena Parashkevova 12. Bombay/"Wombay": Refracting the Postcolonial Cityscape in The Ground Beneath Her Feet Ana Cristina Mendes 13. Screening the Novel, the Novel as Screen: The Aesthetics of the Visual in Fury Madelena Gonzalez 14. Media Competition and Visual Displeasure in The Satanic Verses and Fury Mita Banerjee

Author Bio

Ana Cristina Mendes is a researcher at ULICES (University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies) in Portugal.

Related Subjects

1. 20th Century Literature
2. Art & Visual Culture
3. Post-Colonial Studies