Dipali Parmar Assignment and Presentation 2015-2017

  In a Strange Land Diasporic Expression of Salman Rushdie Name: Parmar Dipali K. Roll No. : 24 Assignment Sem. 3 Email Id: dipaliparmar247@gmail.com Submitted to: The Department of English, MKBU. About Salman Rushdie: Sir Ahmad Salman Rushdie, born on 19 June 1947, is a British Kashmiri novelist and essayist. His second novel, Midnight's Children (1981), won the Booker Prize in 1981 . Much of his fiction is set on the Indian subcontinent. He combines magical realism with historical fiction ; his work is concerned with the many connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern and Western civilizations. His fourth novel, The Satanic Verses (1988), was the subject of a major controversy, provoking protests from Muslims in several countries. Death threats were made against him, including a fatwā calling for his assassination issued by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader of Iran, on 14 February 1989. The British gover...

The American Literature   Name: Parmar Dipali K. Roll No. : 24 Assignment Sem. 3 Email Id: dipaliparmar247@gmail.com Submitted to: The Department of English, MKBU. About Edgar Allan Poe: Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre . He is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States and American literature as a whole, and he was one of the country's earliest practitioners of the short story. Poe is generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre and is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction. He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career. Poe's best known fiction works are Gothic , a genre that he followed to appease the public ...