The Salman Rushdie Archive Project
The Salman Rushdie Archive Project is a resource for Rushdie scholars and a platform for scholarship in Rushdie Studies. Salman Rushdie remains a culturally relevant author whose work and celebrity status consistently shape larger conversations about South Asian studies, geopolitics, and popular culture. While there are many blogs and websites devoted to opinions and information on Rushdie, there is no single web source for all the online data available on the author and his work. This site attempts to pull together relevant research, social media, biographical information, and interviews that could aid Rushdie scholars in their work. It also enables new and emerging scholarship on the relationship between social media studies, popular culture, and literary studies. I would like to expand the site to include more data and possibly a more sophisticated design. I am also eager to connect with scholars who are also interested in Rushdie Studies.
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Dropbox
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