Postmodernism, History and Satire: David Foster and Salman Rushdie

Authors

  • Susan Lever University College, ADFA, UNSW

Keywords:

David Foster, Salman Rushdie, satire, postmodernist fiction

Abstract

A comparison of David Foster's The Glade Within the Grove and Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses, reading them as satires.

Author Biography

  • Susan Lever, University College, ADFA, UNSW
    Susan Lever is an Honorary Associate at the University of Sydney. Her books include Real Relations: The Feminist Politics of Form in Australian Fiction (ASAL/Halstead, 2000) and David Foster: The Satirist of Australia (Cambria Press, 2008).

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Published

2013-01-24

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1996: Current Tensions: Proceedings of the 18th Annual conference 6-11 July 1996

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