On Salman Rushdie / Bernard F. Rogers, Jr. -- Biography of Salman Rushdie / R.S. Krishnan -- Critical reception / Joel Kuortti -- History and myth : rewinding the past in "The prophet's hair" and The moor's last sigh / Mona Narain -- Hybridity and chutnification of history / Nicole Weickgenannt Thiara -- Salman Rushdie and Philip Roth : parallels and departures / David J. Zucker -- Rushdie's other worlds / Roger Y. Clark -- History as trope and atrophying history in Midnight's Children / R.S. Krishnan -- On reading Midnight's Children politically / Asma Abbas -- Shame : a sort of modern fairytale / Harold Branam -- Shilling postcolonial identity : acting, advertising, and the capitalist economy in The satanic verses / Lynn Wells -- From multiculturalism to pop cosmopolitanism : transcultural exchanges in Salman Rushdie's children's books / Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak -- Rushdie as artist, migrant, and humanist in Imaginary Homelands and Step across this line / Lydia Forssander-Song -- One and many in The moor's last sigh / Dohra Ahmad -- Disorientation and double vision in The ground beneath her feet / Bernard F. Rodgers, Jr. -- Repetition and listing in Fury / Robert C. Evans -- Shalimar the clown : love betrayal, and the myths of colonialism / Patrick Colm Hogan -- Resources : Chronology of Salman Rushdie ; Works by Salman Rushdie ; Bibliography.