Perspectives on Migrant Homelessness in Salman Rushdie’s Novel The Satanic Verses
Perspectives on Migrant Homelessness in Salman Rushdie’s Novel The Satanic Verses
Author(s): Petya TsonevaSubject(s): Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Sociology, Migration Studies, Theory of Literature
Published by: Великотърновски университет „Св. св. Кирил и Методий”
Keywords: migration; postcolonialism; home; homelessness; Sufism; subversive self-location
Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this article is to explore a territory that is widely contested in colonial and postcolonial studies. Home appears with particular intensity in the literary and critical narratives of empire, while postcolonial writers appropriate it as a site of contestation and rewriting. Although home is a standard topos in postcolonial research, my study focuses on a particular authorial position that reveals enticing new perspectives on the ways in which the domestic is both inscribed and subverted in the rhetoric of migration.
Journal: VTU Review: Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences
- Issue Year: 3/2019
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 26-41
- Page Count: 16
- Language: English