Salman Rushdie and Visual Culture Celebrating Impurity, Disrupting Borders [Paperback]

In Salman Rushdies novels, images are invested with the power to manipulate the plotline, to stipulate actions from the characters, to have sway over them, seduce them, or even lead them astray. Salman Rushdie and Visual Culturesheds light on this largely unremarked  even if central  dimension of the work of a major contemporary writer. This collection brings together, for the first time and into a coherent whole, research on the extensive interplay between the visible and the readable in Rushdies fiction, from one of the earliest novels  Midnights Children(1981)  to his latest The Enchantress of Florence (2008).

1. Editors Introduction: Salman Rushdies Epico-Mythico-Tragico-Comico-Super-Sexy-High-Masala-Art, or Considerations on Undisciplining Boundaries Ana Cristina Mendes  2. Merely Connect: Salman Rushdie and Tom Phillips Andrew Teverson 3. Beyond the Visible: Secularism and Postcolonial Modernity in Salman Rushdies The Moors Last Sigh, Jamelie Hassans Trilogy and Anish Kapoors Blood Relations Stephen Morton  4. Living Art: Artistic and Intertextual Re-envisionings of the Urban Trope in The Moors Last Sigh Vassilena Parashkevova  5. In Search for Lost Portraits: The Lost Portrait and The Moors Last Sigh Joel Kuortti  6. Paint, Patronage, Power, and the Translators Visibility Jenni Ramone  7. Show and Tell: Midnights Children and The Boyhood of Raleigh Revisited Neil ten Kortenaar  8. Nobody from Bombay should be without a basic film vocabulary: Midnights Children and the Visual Culture of Indian Popular Cinema Florian Stadtler  9. Visual Technologies in Rushdies Fiction: Envisioning the Present in the Imagologicl³¼