The worldwide controversy surrounding its first publication in 1988
and concurrent death threat against its author, Salman Rushdie,
paradoxically led to a narrow understanding of The Satanic Verses,
which focused on whether it is insulting to Islam and whether it
should be banned. And despite piecemeal attention to its epistemic
intricacies by students of postcolonial literature in the aftermath,
The Satanic Verses’ essential opacity has never been sufficiently
met. The Unknown Satanic Verses Controversy on Race and Religion now
responds to this gap through painstakingly detailed attention to the
totality of Rushdie’s text. Indeed it uniquely approaches The
Satanic Verses’ attempt to mythicize race and migration, on the one
hand, and secularize religion and Islam, on the other, from a
perspective informed by the perennial debate on religion and politics,
esoteric or coded writing in the history of political thought,
especially in times of persecution, and Islamic criticism in
contemporary world literature. Üner Daglier’s findings accord with
another layer of interpretation that emphasizes Rushdie’s
across-the-board critique of racial prejudice, penchant for cultural
eclecticism, and bitterly skeptical treatment of the foundations of
Submission and proposal for feminist Islamic reform, as the antidote
for entrenched misogyny, in a world where philosophy is for the rare
and religion for the many. They further convey Rushdie’s constant
preoccupation with the nature of miracles and postmodern case for
intersubjectivity as a criterion for openness to their validity.
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ISBN
9781793600042
Publisert
2020
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Lexington Books
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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