208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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Taking up the roles that Salman Rushdie himself has assumed as a cultural broker, gatekeeper, and mediator in various spheres of public production, Ana Cristina Mendes situates his work in terms of the contemporary production, circulation, and consumption of postcolonial texts within the workings of the cultural industries. Mendes pays particular attention to Rushdie as a public performer across... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 Rushdie as Gatekeeper; Chapter 2 Exploding the Canon; Chapter 3 Film and Television; Chapter 4 Music and the Brown Culture Industry; Chapter 5 Rushdie, the Public Intellectual; Chapter 101 Conclusion;
Biography
Ana Cristina Mendes, PhD, is a researcher at the University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies (CEAUL/ULICES), Portugal.
’This astute and timely study is the first extensive look at the production of Salman Rushdie’s celebrity and authority. It is essential reading for scholars interested in Rushdie, in the fate of postcolonial literature, and in the economics of literary publishing.' Sarah Brouillette, Carleton University, Canada, author of Postcolonial Writers in the Global Literary Marketplace ’Meticulously researched and beautifully written, Ana Cristina Mendes’s book makes a genuine contribution to Rushdie studies.' Sara Upstone, Kingston University, UK, author of British Asian Fiction: Twenty-First-Century Voices 'Mendes's aim to draw a nuanced and multi-faceted image of Rushdie in the cultural marketplace is a successful one.' Review of English Studies
