The Impossibility of Reading in the Information Age: Warnings of Militariality Spoken in Salman Rushdie's The Moor's Last Sigh

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Published: May 1, 2008
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12681/syn.16603
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postcolonial studies Salman Rushdie The Moor's Last Sigh Information Age militariality
Robert P. Marzec
Purdue University
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Robert P. Marzec, Purdue University

Robert Marzec is Associate Professor of English in the Department of English at Purdue University and Associate Editor of Modern Fiction Studies. He is the founding editor of crossings, and the book editor of American Regional Cultures: the Mid-Atlantic Region (Greenwood Press, 2004). Author of several essays on postcolonial studies, comparative literature and theory, he is also the author of An Ecological and Postcolonial Study of Literature: From Daniel Defoe to Salman Rushdie (Palgrave MacMillan, 2007).

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