Search Results - "Satanism"

A mirror for our times 'the Rushdie affair' and the future of multiculturalism / by Weller, Paul, 1956-

Subjects: “…Rushdie, Salman. Satanic verses.…”
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Red Dynamite : Creationism, Culture Wars, and Anticommunism in America / by Weinberg, Carl R., 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: belaboring Scopes -- Lighting the Darwin fuse -- The lamb-dragon and the devil's poison -- Blood relationship, Bolshevism, and whoopie parties -- The wolf pack and the upas Tree -- Beast ancestry, dangerous triplets, and damnable heresies -- Flood, fruit, and Satan -- Trees, knees, and nurseries -- The nightcrawler, the wedge, and the bloodiest religion -- Epilogue: the baby Christian and the dark place.…”
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The Fictions of Satire by Paulson, Ronald

Table of Contents: “…Rhetoric and representation -- Introduction ; Central symbol of violence ; Relationship : the fool and the knave ; Fiction as device : Lucian ; Satura into prose fiction ; Picaresque narrative : the servant-master relation -- From Panurge to Achitophel -- Satirist and the satirist-satirized ; Satirist as knave and as hero : Panurge and Pantagruel ; Satyr-satirist and Augustan realism ; Quixote fiction ; Turnus and Satan ; Fictions of Tory satire -- Swift : the middleman and the dean -- From rhetoric to fiction : The drapier's letters ; Swift's version of the Tory fiction ; Swiftean realism : The Bickerstaff papers ; Swiftean picaresque : Gulliver's travels ; Swiftean romanticism : the satirist as hero ; Conclusion : the fiction of Whig satire.…”
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Mongrel nation diasporic culture and the making of postcolonial Britain / by Dawson, Ashley, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Colonization in reverse : an introduction -- "In the big city the sex life gone wild" : migration, gender, and identity in Sam Selvon's The lonely Londoners -- Black power in a transnational frame : radical populism and the Caribbean Artists Movement -- Behind the mask : carnival politics and British identity in Linton Kwesi Johnson's dub poetry -- Beyond imperial feminism : Buchi Emecheta's London novels and Black British women's emancipation -- Heritage politics of the soul : immigration and identity in Salman Rushdie's The satanic verses -- Genetics, biotechnology, and the future of "race" in Zadie Smith's White teeth -- Conclusion : "Step back from the blow back" : Asian hip-hop and post-9/11 Britain.…”
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Mongrel Nation : Diasporic Culture and the Making of Postcolonial Britain / by Dawson, Ashley, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Colonization in reverse : an introduction -- "In the big city the sex life gone wild" : migration, gender, and identity in Sam Selvon's The lonely Londoners -- Black power in a transnational frame : radical populism and the Caribbean Artists Movement -- Behind the mask : carnival politics and British identity in Linton Kwesi Johnson's dub poetry -- Beyond imperial feminism : Buchi Emecheta's London novels and Black British women's emancipation -- Heritage politics of the soul : immigration and identity in Salman Rushdie's The satanic verses -- Genetics, biotechnology, and the future of "race" in Zadie Smith's White teeth -- Conclusion : "Step back from the blow back" : Asian hip-hop and post-9/11 Britain.…”
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