The Salman Rushdie Project
By Tawnya Ravy
The Salman Rushdie Archive Project is designed as a platform and resource for Rushdie scholars. Salman Rushdie continues to be a culturally relevant author whose literary representations, political opinions, and celebrity status shape our understanding of literature, global politics, and South Asian culture. This project emerged out of a desire for a central place to locate online resources about Rushdie and his work and evolved into an important part of my dissertation work. I have attempted to provide available biographical links,social media data, and research links that I feel are particularly useful for Rushdie scholars. I also maintain a blog platform to collate interesting data and comment on relevant topics in Rushdie scholarship. This site is still in the process of gathering data and site design, but already it offers Rushdie scholars a wealth of information. All of the posted links have been vetted by me, and are carefully selected for potential scholarly research. I do not own any of the content on this site except for the analysis in the blog posts. Please consider following me for regular updates and information about the project (follow the blog, follow me on twitter, and/or linkedIn).
Tawnya Ravy is a PhD. candidate at George Washington University and is currently writing her dissertation. Her scholarly interests include postcolonial theory, South Asian literature, Diaspora, and British postmodernism. She has presented papers on Rushdie’s work at local and international conferences including “Bordering: Similarity and Almost Being in Salman Rushdie’s The Enchantress of Florence” and “Experiencing Myth in Postmodern Culture: The Truth of Untruth in Rushdie’s Haroun and the Sea of Stories and Luka and the Fire of Life.”
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Salman Rushdie Archive 
Very useful; website. More power to you.
Thanks!
HI, Tawnya
Found really interesting your work.I think you can also include Rushdie’s text adapted into film as Mid night’s children.I am also working on this framework.Will post as I complete my project.
Hi Reema! Thanks for your comment. Yes, the only place I mention the film adaptation is under the bibliography link: http://salmanrushdiearchive.com/works/
However it was a major theme at the Rushdie conference in Portugal last year, so I am planning on writing something about it at some point. I would love to know what you think and to learn more about your project. Also, if you have other items which you think I should add, please just let me know.
Hi Tawnya!, Congrats! Got to learn from Prof. Nirmala Menon about the grant you will/got for developing an archive.Wish you all the best and would love to know more about it as you move ahead.
I am working on adaptations and looked into intertextuality and fidelity aspects in Salman Rushdie’s film adaptation of Midnight’s Children… as you asked before.
Hope to hear from you more.
Hi Reema!
I am very interested in what you find relating to intertextuality and fidelity – I actually watched the film with my mother who hasn’t read the book, so I was curious to see how she would receive it compared to me. She really enjoyed it, but I also think they did some overt gestures to help a general audience understand (like the date/location text for the historical moments). On the other hand, I felt like the narrative pacing was off – for example when his house explodes, my mother wasn’t even sure what happened or that it was even his house/family in there – I’m still wrapping my head around it, but I’m looking forward to hearing about your thoughts. Thanks for checking in here! I only update occasionally right now as I’m trying to finish my dissertation! But I do have grand plans for this project – to be explored at a future date.
Best!