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Dissolving Language: Rushdie's The Satanic Verses and Beckett's Not I

Panel: 
East-West Literary Relations
Abstract: 

Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses highlights the impossibility of taking verbal control of the self and of situating oneself in language. Rushdie’s allusion to Samuel Beckett’s Not I shows that voices in language dissolve stable notions of self and prevents singular authorship of the self.

Presenter Information
First Name: 
Jake
Last Name: 
Khoury
Institution: 
Virginia Commonwealth University