From the pre-Islamic Jahilia, early modern Sikri and Florence, to postcolonial Bombay and Karachi, cities have played a pivotal role in Salman Rushdie's fiction.
In the first decades of the twenty-first century, science fiction literature has been transformed in many ways, as the genre has reacted to the dominating influence of films, television, and video games, the growing popularity of fantasy, the rise of young adult science fiction and graphic novels, the impact of the internet and social media, and the increasing diversity of the authors, characters, and often non-Western settings.
In Oceans as Archives, the ocean forms a generative site to develop practices of reading, writing, thinking, and imagining a long era of climate catastrophe.
Como raro y dramatico testimonio de nuestras letras, La Ciudad del Dolor nos devuelve la imagen de un hombre de elite que se muestra vulnerable y que, visto por si mismo y por otros como enfermo, sigue su funcion de intelectual critico publicando notas de prensa acerca de las duras condiciones del lazareto Agua de Dios (1870-1961).
In Oceans as Archives, the ocean forms a generative site to develop practices of reading, writing, thinking, and imagining a long era of climate catastrophe.
Ein Streifzug durch die Weltliteratur, von Shakespeare uber Franz Kafka bis zu Salman Rushdie - und eine Lehre des aufmerksamen LesensNicht nur der Teufel steckt im Detail, auch das Geheimnis gro er Literatur wenn man dafur ein Auge hat.
