Deceptive feminist : the failure of feminism in Salman Rushdie’s fiction

• Main Author: Norjahan Makmon
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Literature::English
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/42525
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Salman Rushdie, by his own admission, has “repeatedly sought to create female characters as rich and powerful as those [he has] known”. Women are crucial to Rushdie’s novels Shame, The Enchantress of Florence and The Ground Beneath Her Feet. The women of these novels are shown to resist the conventi...