Salman Rushdie's cities: reconfigurational politics and the contemporary urban imagination / Vassilena Parashkevova

Includes bibliography and index.

Chapter 1: Introduction: Salman Rushdie’s Cities and
Reconfigurational Politics
Chapter 2: Partition and After: Bombay Re/beginnings and
Subcontinental Twin Cities in Midnight’s Children
and Shame
Chapter 3: Bombay, London, Jahilia: Di/versifications and
Di/versions in The Satanic Verses
Chapter 4: War of the Worlds: Bombay Diptychs and Triptychs
in
The Moor’s Last Sigh
Chapter 5: Quaking Solid Ground: Trojan Falls and Roman
Rises in
The Ground Beneath Her Feet
Chapter 6: Metropolitan Desires: Glocalist Seductions in Fury and
Shalimar the Clown
Chapter 7: Mirrors-for-Cities: Florence and Fatehpur Sikri, or
Machiavelli and ’the Prince’ in The Enchantress of
Florence