Rushdie feared until he dealt with the attempt on his life, he ‘wouldn’t be able to write anything else’. The book is a clearly cathartic story of courage and resilience, but it’s curiously one-eyed.
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The Chautauqua movement symbolized progressive reformers’ hopes that public learning could create a healthy democracy.
Rushdie’s books have inspired generations of readers and writers – and a recent attempt to kill him.
The attack on Salman Rushdie promptly led to speculation on whether the attacker had been influenced by the 1989 fatwa against the author. A scholar explains what a fatwa is, and isn’t.
Talk of the attack risks devolving into overly simplistic free speech debates.
Salman Rushdie, great writer and outspoken defender of writers’ freedom of expression, has been under a fatwa for more than 30 years. He’s set to recover from a shock stabbing last Friday in New York.
The novel goes to the heart of Muslim religious beliefs and challenges some of its most sensitive tenets.
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Affiliated Faculty of Bioethics, Religion, and Society, Department of Religious Studies, DePaul University
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Frank C. Erwin, Jr. Centennial Professor in Drama, The University of Texas at Austin
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FBA Professor of English Literature, King's College London
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Emeritus Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Murdoch University
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Research Fellow in English Literature, Oxford Brookes University
