Rushdie's Cross-Pollinations

This book is a literary journey through Salman Rushdies cross-pollinated gardens, showing that the metaphor of reading as a quest is essential to Rushdies writing. It invites scholars and students interested in postcolonialism, postmodernism, transculturalism and the global novel to explore the many facets of Rushdies novels and collections of essays. The journey starts from Rushdies sorcery with language, and it continues with his appraisal of Joyces legacy. The reader will also find an analysis of the dark season of the fatwa, as well as the lush sensuality of the body and aestheticized Eros in The Moors Last Sigh, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Fury, Shalimar the Clown and The Enchantress of Florence. The book further explores the liquid bridges, the postmodernist twist and postcolonial satire in Rushdies fiction. After providing a sense of Rushdies novel of disorientation and New York, the book finishes by exploring Rushdies Quichotte, published in 2019, an epitome of the global novel that revisits and translates Cervantess Don Quijote de la Mancha for readers addicted to TV and the Internet.