Salman Rushdie and the Genesis of Secrecy

Salman Rushdie and the Genesis of Secrecy is the first book to draw extensively from material in the Salman Rushdie archive at Emory University to uncover the makings of the British Indian writer's modernist poetics. Linking criticism to applied theory throughout and connecting Rushdie with radical non-Western humanism and questions about world literature, this book argues that a true understanding of the writer lies in uncovering his genesis of secrecy through a close reading of his archive