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"The Decolonizing Pen": Cultural Diversity and the Transnational Imaginary in Rushdie's Fiction

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Liselotte Glage, Hanover, Ruediger Kunow, Potsdam, Germany Introduction: Rushdie and the New International Theme 7

Elleke Boehmer, Nottingham v Neo-Orientalism, Converging Cities, and the Postcolonial Criticism of Rushdie 15

Graham Huggan, Tobias Wachinger, Munich, Germany Can Newness Enter the World? The Satanic Verses and the Question of Multicultural Aesthetics 25

Bernd-Peter Lange, Magdeburg, Germany '"' Postcolonial Gothic: Salman Rushdie's The Moor's Last Sigh 39

Michael Gorra, Northampton, Mass. Rushdie's Fantasy 51

Peter Antes, Hanover, Germany K Salman Rushdie: Wanderer Between Two Worlds? 61

Nilufer E. Bharucha, Bombay v Real and Imagined Worlds: Salman Rushdie as a Writer of the Indian Diaspora 69

Ruediger Kunow, Potsdam, Germany \, "Detached ... from both worlds, not one": -^ Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children and the Postcolonial Novel 87 Students' Forum

Christine Amann, Saarbruecken, Germany Pluralism versus Purism: Cultural Hybridity in Salman Rushdie's The Moor's Last Sigh 107

Britta Alexandra von Roenn, Hanover, Germany The Discovery of Truth: "Overneath" and Underneath Realities 111

Ulrike Roettjer, Hanover, Germany \ Construction and Deconstruction of an Image: 'Mother India' in Salman Rushdie's The Moor's Last Sigh 115

Alexander Sablowski, Hanover, Germany There's No Place Like Home 119

Nirit Scholz, Hanover, Germany The Boundless Realm of Salman Rushdie's The Moor's Last Sigh 123

Tatjana Schultz, Hanover, Germany The Moor's Last Sigh: Narrative Form versus Content and the Question of Identity 127

Till Winkler, Hanover, Germany \ Beyond a Politics of Hybridity: The Moor's Last Sigh 131

Contributors 145