Looking Forward by Always Looking Back: Reading Cosmopolitanism in Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses.
Journal Title: Journal of Advances in Social Science and Humanities - Year 2017, Vol 3, Issue 3
Abstract
Salman Rushdie has been embroiled in controversies ever since his infamous book, The Satanic Verses hit the book stores in 1988. For some he has been an advocate of liberal values with a critical outlook, but for the most he is someone who insulted the core values of Islam and denounced the Prophet by portraying him as a human with all the flaws and follies intact. The paper seeks to situate the text outside the spectrum of controversies which largely emanate from the religious discomfort and thereby assigning it a place in the geopolitics of the postcolonial scenario which concern with the identity politics, the diasporic communities have to face once they cross the borders. In other words, the paper attempts a cosmopolitan reading of the text and flashes out the gaps and fissures in the cosmopolitan in the ideal/utopia the West adheres to however superficial it to be. Also the paper sheds some light on the secular model of the West practices and the viability of the same in the Indian context. The paper would help the readers be aware of the author’s allegiance to the cosmopolitan as well as secular ideal of the West which affects the sensibilities of the postcolonial reader in a myriad ways.
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Skand Priya, Amit Kumar
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