The conflict between the personal and the social in Salman Rushdie’s Shame; ‘History’ vs. ‘history’
At its most simplistic, the novel Shame is a tale about the birth of the nation of Pakistan. Its author, Salman Rushdie, is perhaps uniquely placed to tell this tale. He was born in Bombay, then British India, on 19th June, 1947 to a wealthy Muslim family of Kashmiri descent. Less than two months af...
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University of Oulu
2015
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| Online Access: | http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201512122298 http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:fi:oulu-201512122298 |