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The Rushdie file

Title
The Rushdie file / edited by Lisa Appignanesi and Sara Maitland.
Publication
[Syracuse, N.Y.] : Syracuse University Press, ©1990.

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Additional Authors
  • Appignanesi, Lisa
  • Maitland, Sara, 1950-
Description
xv, 266 p.; 24 cm.
Summary
Documents all sides of the Rushdie controversy, providing an international chronology of events, early reviews of the book, and more reflective articles drawn from the huge, worldwide coverage, fairly and fully representing all points of view.
Series Statement
Contemporary issues in the Middle East.
Uniform Title
Contemporary issues in the Middle East
Subject
  • Rushdie, Salman
  • Rushdie, Salman > Censorship
  • Rushdie, Salman
  • Rushdie, Salman 1947-
  • Satanic verses (Rushdie, Salman)
  • 1900-1999
  • Freedom of the press > History > 20th century > Sources
  • Censorship > History > 20th century > Sources
  • Islam and literature
  • Censorship
  • Freedom of the press
  • Islam and literature
  • Islam
  • Rezeption
  • Zensur
  • Censorship
  • Censorship > History > 20th century > Sources
  • Freedom of the press > History > 20th century > Sources
  • censure > liberte d'opinion > litterature > Rushdie, Salman. "The satanic verses"
Genre/Form
  • History
  • Sources
Note
  • "All the material in this book has been previously printed or spoken"--Acknowledgments.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
The author and the book [sampling of initial reviews and stories about the author] / The mounting protest [documents reactions in Muslim comunities in India, then elsewhere] / The Khomeini fatwa [essential statements on Rushdie emanating from Iran in mid-February 1989] / The international response : United Kingdom and World Roundup; France; West Germany; Italy; Norway; Egypt; Canada; United States [diverse comments, news stories, editorials, and resolutions in reaction on the fatwa] / Reflections : truth and fiction, writers and religion, on censorship, on Islam, on understanding and toleration [fuller essays and statements taking a broader view on the issues raised by the affair].
ISBN
  • 0815602480
  • 9780815602484
  • 0815624948
  • 9780815624943
LCCN
89048413
OCLC
  • ocm20690931
  • 20690931
  • SCSB-13984702
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library