Book Description
Colonial metaphors included such images as bringing "light" to dark, barbaric places; "journeying" to uncharted territories; and "educating" native populations. Such metaphors are politically charged and assume the superiority of the colonizing nation. This book studies how Rushdie, as a postcolonial writer, has reworked and reimagined colonial metaphors in his works. The volume looks at the overarching metaphors of migration, translation, hybridity, blasphemy, and globalization in Rushdie's novels.

About the Author
JAINA C. SANGA is Adjunct Professor of Cultural Studies at Southern Methodist University and has previously taught at Cleveland State University, Cuyahoga Community College, Georgia State University, and Kennesaw State University.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Colonial metaphors included such images as bringing "light" to dark, barbaric places; "journeying" to uncharted territories; and "educating" native populations. Such metaphors are politically charged and assume the superiority of the colonizing nation. This book studies how Rushdie, as a postcolonial writer, has reworked and reimagined colonial metaphors in his works. The volume looks at the overarching metaphors of migration, translation, hybridity, blasphemy, and globalization in Rushdie's novels.

SYNOPSIS

Studies how Rushdie's postcolonial novels rework and reimagine colonial metaphors of migration, translation, hybridity, blasphemy, and globalization.

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