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HISTORICAL SPECIFICITIES OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF SUBJECTIVITY IN SALMAN RUSHDIE’S FICTION
HISTORICAL SPECIFICITIES OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF SUBJECTIVITY IN SALMAN RUSHDIE’S FICTION

Author(s): Roxana Elena Doncu, Roxana Corina Sfetea, Cristina Veronica Andreescu
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Editura Pro Universitaria
Keywords: hybridity; communalism; imperialism; colonialism; post-colonialism

Summary/Abstract: The article examines the historical context of Salman Rushdie’s prose, in particular the history of the Muslim community in India and of Muslim-Hindu relationships. Rushdie develops the concept of hybridity in order to brigde the gap between the Muslim and Hindu cultures, which have often been interpreted as incommensurable. In light of the convoluted history ofMuslim-Hindu relationships, Rushdie’s position appears less radical than his fatwa would have suggested, as that of a Muslim intellectual concerned with the reform of Islamic fundamentalism.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 70-79
  • Page Count: 10