Salman Rushdie and the Third World

Rushdie's fiction sits at a crossroads: between the nation as a subject for literature and a new generation of writers whose sympathies cross borders. Timothy Brennan's study takes that tension seriously, reading Rushdie's novels alongside his journalism to ask what it means to write about the Third World from within the metropolitan centre.

Along the way Brennan questions how narrowly the British literary tradition has been drawn, and widens it to take in the new writing then emerging from Britain's black communities. A rewarding critical work for students of postcolonial literature and anyone interested in how Rushdie was being read in 1989.