1st Edition
Salman Rushdie and Visual Culture Celebrating Impurity, Disrupting Borders
1. Editor’s Introduction: Salman Rushdie’s "Epico-Mythico-Tragico-Comico-Super-Sexy-High-Masala-Art," or Considerations on Undisciplining Boundaries Ana Cristina Mendes 2. Merely Connect: Salman Rushdie and Tom Phillips Andrew Teverson 3. Beyond the Visible: Secularism and Postcolonial Modernity in Salman Rushdie’s The Moor’s Last Sigh, Jamelie Hassan’s Trilogy and Anish Kapoor’s Blood Relations Stephen Morton 4. ‘Living Art’: Artistic and Intertextual Re-envisionings of the Urban Trope in The Moor’s Last Sigh Vassilena Parashkevova 5. In Search for Lost Portraits: The Lost Portrait and The Moor’s Last Sigh Joel Kuortti 6. Paint, Patronage, Power, and the Translator’s Visibility Jenni Ramone 7. Show and Tell: Midnight’s Children and ‘The Boyhood of Raleigh’ Revisited Neil ten Kortenaar 8. ‘Nobody from Bombay should be without a basic film vocabulary’: Midnight’s Children and the Visual Culture of Indian Popular Cinema Florian Stadtler 9. Visual Technologies in Rushdie’s Fiction: Envisioning the Present in the ‘Imagological Age’ Cristina Sandru 10. Bombay/’Wombay’: Refracting the Postcolonial Cityscape in The Ground Beneath Her Feet Ana Cristina Mendes 11. Screening the Novel, the Novel as Screen: The Aesthetics of the Visual in Fury Madelena Gonzalez 12. Media Competition and Visual Displeasure in Salman Rushdie’s Fiction Mita Banerjee
Biography
Ana Cristina Mendes is a researcher at ULICES (University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies) in Portugal. Her interests span postcolonial cultural production and its intersection with the culture industries. Her publications include O Passado em Exibição (Cosmos, 2011) and the co-edited book Re-Orientalism and Re-Orientalism and South Asian Identity Politics: The Oriental Other Within (Routledge, 2011).
