Essays on Salman Rushdie

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The moral parable of The Prophet’s Hair was written by Salman Rushdie as a part of the East, West compilation of short stories in 1981. Rushdie was born in Bombay, India in 1947. He studied at the King’s College in Cambridge, England and now resides in New York City. This story belongs to the literary genre of magical realism, in which magical elements are inserted into an otherwise realistic setting. The main character, Hashim, is a businessman with a family who starts out as kind and caring. He unsuspectingly finds a religious relic, a silver vial containing a lock of hair from ...

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The practice of blocking public communication by the government or the media is censorship. Censorship is a sensitive topic depending on the way is being utilized by the government. Censorship has been a big issue for the government since the first word was written. First thing is about the use of censorship in high schools; one of the profound liberties of living in the west is freedom of speech, but it is important to know that this freedom can be exploited by different groups and to halt their way of communication is important for the greater of the society. ...

Ahmed Salman Rushdie is a British-Indian essayist and novelist born 19th of June 1974 in Bombay, India. He is a copywriter turned novelist. He is specialized in the historian fiction and magic realism as his writing technique/style. His genres focused on religion, history, oral tradition, fantasy and mythology. Moreover, these stories touched on migration and connection between western and eastern civilization. Although he grew up as Muslim, later in life he turned into an atheist. He is divorced, but he was married to Clarissa Luard, Robyn Davidson, Marrianne Wiggins, Elizabeth West and Padma Lakshmi(British Council Literature, 2011). Salman Rushdie ...

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A lack of time is one of the most common problems people face in 21st century. The average people who have nine to five jobs piled on top of personal stress of life, is carried around on their shoulders all day. When they get home they want to be able to relax after work and be entertained. In today’s media driven society that means spending more time in front of the TV. Because of this, the entertainment industry has been more and more focused on the idea of producing TV shows that will claim their attention and keep ...

Salman Rushdie's "The Courter", qualifies as an example of a story that displays its themes using some kind of popular culture references as well as subjects of race, identity, culture and family. From reading the story, the researcher can conclude that it could be popular culture in some ways because it is a story that appears to address the events and the emotional state of characters during the British rule. However, the researcher believes that “The Courter,” has a different direction by describing more regarding the struggle of the storyteller’s cultural identity among his British citizenship and his Indian identity. With ...

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Salman Rushdie’s non fictional work The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey expresses the gongs on in Nicaragua after the revolution. In this paper, this will be focused on more so the feelings of the people, its culture and political environment and analysis of it. Rushdie seemed to question a lot of things and even back others from a political point of view. This portrays him as a honest visitor of the state who so wishes to explore the land and get to know what really happened behind the scenes of leadership and governance.

The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey

In the book The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan ...

Abstract.

Salman Rushdie’s non fictional work The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey expresses the gongs on in Nicaragua after the revolution. In this paper, this will be focused on more so the feelings of the people, its culture and political environment and analysis of it. Rushdie seemed to question a lot of things and even back others from a political point of view. This portrays him as a honest visitor of the state who so wishes to explore the land and get to know what really happened behind the scenes of leadership and governance.

The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey

In the book The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan ...