Salman Rushdie, The Enchantress of Florence

Lindsey Moore (Lancaster University)

Ed. by Cristina Sandru, The Literary Encyclopedia
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 2008

Places

India (Country of Origin)
United Kingdom (Publication/ performance)
United States (Publication/ performance)

Genres and Modes

Allegory
Novel

Resources

The Enchantress of Florence (2008) is Salman Rushdie’s tenth novel and his eighth fictional work to be partly or wholly set – explicitly – in the Indian subcontinent. In this sense, it fits into what Martina Ghosh-Schellhorn describes as the “post-Midnight” (post-Midnight’s Children) portion of the Rushdie corpus, in which can be included Shame (1983); The Satanic Verses (1988); East, West (1994); The Moor’s Last Sigh (1995); The Ground Beneath Her Feet (1999); and Shalimar the Clown (2005). This grouping defines Rushdie’s creative engagement with national and cultural identity in the Indian subcontinent and, reflecting his sense of an “Indian talent for …

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Citation: Moore, Lindsey. "The Enchantress of Florence". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 20 August 2010 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=23534, accessed 22 November 2024.]

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