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The Politics of the Palimpsest in 'The Moor's Last Sigh'

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posted on 2023-06-07, 22:50 authored by Minoli Salgado
I situate the novel as a `postcolonial palimpsest' one that addresses the `double time' of postcoloniality by marking the erasure and retention of the dominant narrative as well as one that challenges the linearity of such layering. I show that Rushdie's use of the palimpsest is constitutive of his apparent volte face in critiquing postmodernism, and that an analysis of this trope is crucial to identifying Rushdie's paradoxical political stance as both an apologist for and critic of cultural hybridity and pluralism.

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Publication status

  • Published

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Page range

153-167

Pages

200.0

Book title

The Cambridge companion to Salman Rushdie

Place of publication

Cambridge

ISBN

9780521847193

Series

Cambridge companions to literature

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  • English Publications

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Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Editors

Abdulrazak Gurnah

Legacy Posted Date

2012-02-06

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