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Hoydis, Julia ORCID: 0000-0002-8020-5473 (2019). Realism for the post-truth era: politics and storytelling in recent fiction and autobiography by Salman Rushdie. Eur. J. Engl. Stud., 23 (2). S. 152 - 172. ABINGDON: ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD. ISSN 1744-4233

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Abstract

This essay analyses Rushdie?s novel The Golden House and his memoir Joseph Anton to explore entanglements between fact and fiction, raising questions about the perception and use of realism and postmodernism as aesthetic categories and narrative modes in twenty-first-century literature. At the centre of both texts are concerns with identity, politics, mystery, deception and revelation in what is referred to as the ?post-truth? era ? ushered in by the ?Rushdie affair?. The argument focuses on the pursuit of truth and interplay of genres in Rushdie?s texts which employ a mode of storytelling best described as a kind of ?operatic realism?.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Hoydis, Julia UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-8020-5473 UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-148543
DOI:	10.1080/13825577.2019.1640422
Journal or Publication Title:	Eur. J. Engl. Stud.
Volume:	23
Number:	2
Page Range:	S. 152 - 172
Date:	2019
Publisher:	ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
Place of Publication:	ABINGDON
ISSN:	1744-4233
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language JOSEPH-ANTON; AUTOFICTION Multiple languages Cultural Studies; Linguistics; Language & Linguistics; Literature Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/14854