Salman Rushdie, Shalimar The Clown

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 2005

Places

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

Genres and Modes

Novel

Resources

In Shalimar the Clown (2005), Salman Rushdie turns to the one remaining thread of his complex cultural inheritance that he has not yet given substantial novelistic treatment: the state of Kashmir. Bombay, Pakistan, London and New York, more or less in that order, have all performed central roles in earlier works. Kashmir, the homeland of Rushdie’s maternal grandfather and one-time favourite location for Rushdie family holidays, had appeared only as a shadowy original for the Valley of K in the children’s fantasy Haroun and the Sea of Stories (1990), and as the point of departure for Aadam Aziz, cast out of paradise after losing his faith in Midnight’s Children (1981).

Midnight’s Children is the …

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Citation: Teverson, Andrew. "Shalimar The Clown". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 01 December 2005 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=16868, accessed 24 April 2024.]

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