A Bit of This and a Bit of That
Rushdie's Newness
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2929273 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Qadri Ismail, Qadri M Ismail (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1991 |
| Issue | 29 |
| Pages | 117 |
| Publication date | 1991-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Text (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0164-2472 • E-ISSN: 1527-1951 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/466302 |
| OpenAlex | W2331215491 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 2 |
We got drunk, Abdullah and I. Abdullah, a political activist from back home, started life as a nationalist; for a long time a Marxist, he now described himself as a radical humanist. We were open-mouthed all night, words coming out, booze going in. But I could have got high on the chitchat alone. The talk came around, via the recent spate of extremist nationalisms in south Asia, to The Satanic Verses. The fatwa was more than a year old, Rushdie's recantation still to come. What do you think about the book? he asked
Art · Computer network · Computer Science · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · Islamic Studies and History · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
| Citations per year | 0.05 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2007 - 2007 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |