Journal article
Manuscripts in an archive: Two unpublished Rushdie novels and a TV script
The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Vol.52(3), pp.422-438
2017
Abstract
The article examines two unpublished novels and a TV script by Rushdie deposited in the Emory University Salman Rushdie Archive. Its aim is to offer an analysis of the contents of these unpublished works as well as to theorize their status with reference to fair copies of texts that do not have their corresponding published versions. Against Rushdie’s own declaration that these works were “garbage”, ephemeral material unworthy of circulation in the public domain, and certainly not useful to him as signposts of paths taken towards the composition of his more artistically accomplished works, the paper suggests unpublished fair copies have both intrinsic and textual value. As texts in potentia they require a theoretical model that would read them as text qua text and not as fair copies to be compared to their published versions.
Details
- Title
- Manuscripts in an archive: Two unpublished Rushdie novels and a TV script
- Authors/Creators
- V. Mishra (Author/Creator) - Murdoch University
- Publication Details
- The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Vol.52(3), pp.422-438
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Identifiers
- 991005542316107891
- Copyright
- © 2017 The Author(s)
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Arts
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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