Ebook: Salman Rushdie in the cultural marketplace

Taking up the roles that Salman Rushdie has assumed as a cultural broker, gatekeeper and mediator in various spheres of public production, Ana Cristina Mendes argues that how a postcolonial author becomes personally and professionally enmeshed in the dealings of the cultural industries is of particular relevance. She proposes new itineraries and frameworks for interpreting Rushdie's work in the context of postcolonial cultural production and circulation within a marketplace that is global in both orientation and effects