Acts of Negation: Modality and Spatiality in The Satanic Verses

Journal Article

Sadiq, Ebtisam Ali . 2013

• نوع عمل المنشور: Literary Criticism
• الوسوم: Contemporary Novel
• المجلة \ الصحيفة: Jordan Journal of Modern Languages and Literature
• رقم العدد: 3
• رقم الإصدار السنوي: 5
• الصفحات: 83-98

مستخلص المنشور

This paper reads Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses through a postcolonial critical perspective. It argues that the author rewrites the history of Islam by utilizing postcolonial strategies of historiographic modality and spatiality in order to challenge Islam as a colonizing force and deconstruct what he considers its essentialist creeds. Ironically, Rushdie abuses postcolonial discourse by essentializing Islam and evaluating it from an imperial perspective and a Eurocentric point of view. Such practice undermines his claims to modality and to spatial history writing and compromises his decolonizing project against Islam.