Murdoch University
The Krishna Somers Foundation presents the year’s sixth event, a lecture by
Dr Andrew Teverson,
currently a visiting fellow from Kingston University (UK).
As usual excellent wine (and orange juice) will be available.
When: Monday May 7 4.30 PM
Where: Education and Humanities 3.041
Title:
Migrant Fictions:
The Fairy Tale in the Novels of Salman Rushdie
This lecture will examine Salman Rushdie’s uses of fairy tale in the light of the historical connection between folk-narrative and nationalism. It will consider how Rushdie’s representation of storytelling as an agent of ‘belonging’ both perpetuates and challenges the approach to folk tales apparent in the work of Romantic nationalists such as J. G. Herder. It will also seek to show that Rushdie’s deployment of the fairy tale is, almost invariably, an extension of the political and satirical projects of his fictions. The lecture will range across Rushdie’s works, but there will be a particular focus on Shame, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, The Moor’s Last Sigh and The Ground Beneath Her Feet.
Dr. Andrew Teverson is a visiting fellow at Murdoch, on sabbatical from his regular post as a lecturer in English at Kingston University, near London. He has taught at Goldsmiths College (University of London), Westminster University and Cambridge University, and has published on the work of Angela Carter, Kazuo Ishiguro, Salman Rushdie, and the sculptor Anish Kapoor. His book on Rushdie for Manchester University Press’s Contemporary World Writers series is due out this month.
