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Dorritta Fong, « Satanic v. Angelic: The World Welterweight Fight: Rushdie Takes on Hegemony! », Commonwealth Essays and Studies, ID : 10.4000/123zi
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While the West has generally viewed reaction to The Satanic Verses as typifying the backwardness of Islam and championed Rushdie as an icon of free speech, such a binary interpretation is misleading. The novel is satanic not because it is a product of a depraved secular writer who criticises Islam but in its critiques of both fundamentalist Islam and the West’s demonising of the East. Rushdie’s work redefines race, nation, and the abjected devil.