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

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.

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