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Recently there has been a burgeoning of interest in the interconnected symbolic and material economies that arise given emerging global markets for cultural goods. Two studies are particularly compelling attempts to encourage conversation about the relevance of this topic to literary study. Though neither book focuses exclusively on the subject, at various points their respective authors diagnose the current literary marketplace and the global mechanisms of evaluation and consecration that attend it. They make unusually comparable arguments about the specific way a text’s locality relates to its entry into a newly dominant global field.
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Salman Rushdie, Fury (Toronto: Vintage, 2002), 24. Subsequent page references appear in the body of the text.
Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet (Toronto: Vintage, 1999), 482.
Qtd. in Brian Stewart, ‘The Magazine Interview: Salman Rushdie,’ in Salman Rushdie Interviews: A Sourcebook of his Ideas, ed. Pradyumna S. Chauhan (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001), 292.
W.J. Weatherby, Salman Rushdie: Sentenced to Death (New York: Carroll & Graff, 1990), 42.
Eric de Bellaigue, British Book Publishing as a Business since the 1960s (London: The British Library, 2004), 53.
Revathi Krishnaswamy, ‘Mythologies of Migrancy: Postcolonialism, Postmodernism, and the Political of (Dis)location,’ Ariel 26 (1995), 128.
Rob Nixon, ‘London Calling: V.S. Naipaul and the License of Exile,’ South Atlantic Quarterly 87 (1988), 7.
Amit Chaudhuri, ‘The Construction of the Indian Novel in English,’ Introduction, The Picador Book of Modern Indian Literature, ed. Amit Chaudhuri (London: Picador, 2001), xxiv.
Bishnupriya Ghosh, When Borne Across: Literary Cosmopolitics in the Contemporary Indian Novel (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2004), 3.
Salman Rushdie, Introduction, The Screenplay of Midnight’s Children (London: Vintage, 1999), 10.
Salman Rushdie, Shame (London: Picador, 1984), 28.
Salman Rushdie, ‘A Dream of Glorious Return,’ in Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992–2002 (New York: Random House, 2002), 181.
Salman Rushdie, The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey (New York: Viking, 1987), 13. Subsequent page references appear in the body of the text.
In particular, media outlets in Honduras and Costa Rica have been linked to anti-Sandinista, pro-contra funding sources in the US, including the CIA (see, for example, Angharad N. Valdivia, ‘The U.S. Intervention in Nicaraguan and Other Latin American Media,’ in Revolution and Counterrevolution in Nicaragua, ed. Thomas W. Walker [Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1990], 352).
For accounts of these developments see Brij V. Lal and Michael Pretes, eds., Coup: Reflections on the Political Crisis in Fiji (Canberra, Australia: Pandanus Books, 2001), and
Satendra P. Nandan, Fiji: Paradise in Pieces, comp. and ed. Anthony Mason (Bedford Park, Australia: Centre for Research in the New Literatures in English, 2000).
Victor Lal, Fiji, Coups in Paradise: Race, Politics and Military Intervention (London: Zed Books, 1990), 13.
Andrew Ross, ‘Cultural Preservation in the Polynesia of the Latter-Day Saints,’ in The Chicago Gangster Theory of Life: Nature’s Debt to Society (London: Verso, 1994), 90.
Taina Woodward, ‘On Being Fijian,’ in Coup: Reflections on the Political Crisis in Fiji, eds. Brij V. Lal and Michael Pretes (Canberra, Australia: Pandanus Books, 2001), 49.
See, for example, Sanjay Ramesh, ‘The Race Bandwagon,’ in Coup: Reflections on the Political Crisis in Fiji, eds. Brij V. Lal and Michael Pretes (Canberra, Australia: Pandanus Books, 2001), 125.
Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère, Origin and Originality in Rushdie’s Fiction (Bern: Peter Lang, 1999), 217.
Séan Burke, ‘Ideologies and Authorship,’ in Authorship: From Plato to Postmodern, ed. Séan Burke (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1995), 219.
Daniel J. Boorstin, The Image: a Guide to Pseudo-Events in America (New York: Harper & Row, 1961), 57.
Leah Price, ‘From Ghostwriter to Typewriter: Delegating Authority at Fin de Siècle,’ in The Faces of Anonymity: Anonymous and Pseudonymous Publication from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century, ed. Robert J. Griffin (New York: Palgrave, 2003), 214.
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Brouillette, S. (2007). Salman Rushdie’s ‘Unbelonging’: Authorship and ‘The East’. In: Postcolonial Writers in the Global Literary Marketplace. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230288171_4
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