Rushdie’s books have inspired generations of readers and writers – and a recent attempt to kill him.
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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.
On the 75th anniversary of India’s partition, scholars from the US, Canada, France, UK and Australia write about their favorite book or film that best explains the trauma of a violent division.
The novel goes to the heart of Muslim religious beliefs and challenges some of its most sensitive tenets.
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Honorary Professor of International Relations, The University of Melbourne
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FBA Professor of English Literature, King's College London
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Maîtresse de conférences HDR en anglais, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord
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Affiliated Faculty of Bioethics, Religion, and Society, Department of Religious Studies, DePaul University
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Professor & Director, Global Ecological Change & Sustainability Laboratory, University of Guelph
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Assistant Professor of Political Science, Middlebury
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Assistant Professor the history of modern and contemporary India, University of Nottingham
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Emeritus Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Murdoch University
