"The battle for the Enlightenment" : Rushdie, Islam, and the West
In the years following the proclamation of the fatwa against him, Salman Rushdie has come to view the conflict of the Rushdie Affair not only in terms of a struggle between “Islam” and “the West”, but in terms of a “battle for the Enlightenment”. This polarised worldview uses an unhistorical idea of...
Main Author: | Perchard, Adam Glyn Kim |
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Other Authors: | Watt, Jim |
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University of York
2014
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Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.647738 |
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