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The Moors Last Sigh

novel by Rushdie

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English literature

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(1983), The Satanic Verses (1988), The Moor’s Last Sigh (1995), and The Ground Beneath Her Feet (1999) further demonstrate, stylistic miscellaneousness—a way of writing that exhibits the vitalizing effects of cultural cross-fertilization—is especially suited to conveying postcolonial experience. (The Satanic Verses was understood differently in the Islamic world, to the…
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…by novelist Salman Rushdie in The Moor’s Last Sigh (1995), the book was immediately banned in Maharashtra.
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