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The Play of Reasons: The Sacred and the Profane in Salman Rushdie's Fiction

The Play of Reasons: The Sacred and the Profane in Salman Rushdie's Fiction

Yacoubi, Youssef
Zamora, Maria C.

Hardcover

Series: Postcolonial Studies, Book 14

PhilosophyLiterary CriticismGeneral Christianity

ISBN10: 1433113260
ISBN13: 9781433113260
Publisher: Peter Lang Us
Published: Jun 9 2012
Pages: 230
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Play of Reasons argues that Salman Rushdie's eclectic and hybridized work can be situated within an Islamic genealogy of theological and literary traditions. Rushdie's prose is difficult to conceive as unitary in meaning precisely because it operates according to a polymorphous Islamic literary and theological register, while also being divided by the Greek, Abrahamic, and Indian dimensions. There is a parallax when Rushdie is viewed from within Islamic traditions, creating interest in a certain postcolonial saturation of Islamic literary traces, theological, and political anxieties; closures and ruptures of the sacred and the profane. Rushdie's writing is neither essentially Islamic or Indian, nor essentially Western or Greek, but to read him, in terms of an Islamic tradition, is an intervention in what the author calls Diasporic criticism. Rushdie's work construed as a kind of philosophy-in-literature foregrounds an engagement with a number of Muslim masters of suspicion (classical and modern), whose literary and philosophical ideas have been deeply immersed in the limits of tradition. In the final analysis the author argues that Rushdie's prose demonstrates the extent to which literature is committed to a critical reconceptualization of history, truth, meaning, and value systems based in the possibilities of risk, constructive doubt, and contingency.

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