Salman Rushdie's Postcolonial Metaphors

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Salman Rushdie's Postcolonial Metaphors Migration, Translation, Hybridity, Blasphemy, and Globalization

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Jaina C. Sanga

Book Code: GM1310

ISBN: 0-313-31310-5

ISBN-13: 978-0-313-31310-3

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192 pages, photo

Greenwood Press

Publication: 6/30/2001

List Price: $110.95 (UK Sterling Price: £65.00)

Availability: In Stock

Media Type: Hardcover

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

Subjects:

Literature » World Literature
Literature » English Literature

Series Title: Contributions to the Study of World Literature

Series Number: 109

Description: Metaphors allow us to describe something new in terms of the familiar. They are culturally and ideologically grounded and help structure language, thoughts, and attitudes. The network of empire building was sustained through a system of metaphors that saw and depicted the colonizer as superior, powerful, and beneficial, and the indigenous population as deviant and primitive. Colonial metaphors included such images as bringing "light" to dark, barbaric places; "journeying" to uncharted lands; and "educating" ignorant natives. This volume studies how Salman Rushdie reworks and reimagines colonial metaphors in his postcolonial novels. The book looks at five overarching metaphors in Rushdie's writings: "migration," or the transfer of people and their ideologies; "translation," the process of representing something from one language into another; "hybridity," the fusing together of disparate cultural elements; "blasphemy," the desecration of sacred beliefs by altering their representation; and "globalization," the homogenization of cultures. By reconstructing these metaphors in his novels, Rushdie challenges established colonial ways of understanding the world, undermines imperialist power structures, and introduces alternative visions of reality.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Migration
Translation
Hybridity
Blasphemy
Globalization
Conclusion: Constructing Newness
Bibliography
Index

LC Card Number: 00-069155

LCC Class: PR6068

Dewey Class: 823


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