Salman Rushdie, The Jaguar Smile

Andrew Teverson (Kingston University)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 10.3.5: South Asian Diasporic Literature and Culture, 1800-present.
Vol. editors: Claire Gallien (Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3), Pavan Kumar Malreddy (J W Goethe University of Frankfurt), Delphine Munos (Université de Liège), Muneeza Shamsie (Independent Scholar - Asia), Niaz Zaman (Independent University Bangladesh)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1987

Places

India (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Non-Fiction
- Guidebooks / Travel writing

Resources

The Jaguar Smile is Salman Rushdie's first, and to date only full length work of non-fiction (if we exclude his essay length pamphlet on The Wizard of Oz). It was written shortly after Rushdie, taking a break from the composition of The Satanic Verses, visited Nicaragua as a guest of the Sandinista Association of Cultural Workers (ASTC) - “the umbrella organisation that brought writers, artists, musicians, craftspeople, dancers and so on, together under the same roof” (The Jaguar Smile, 2^nd ed., 4). The occasion of his visit, Rushdie tells us, was the seventh anniversary of the “triumph” of the Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (Sandinista National Liberation Front) - when …

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Citation: Teverson, Andrew. "The Jaguar Smile". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 13 October 2004 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=16596, accessed 26 November 2024.]

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