Inspired by Salman Rushdie’s recent knighting, I fished out the Word file for my BA thesis on Rushdie and Pham Van Ky and shoved it into HTML.
Here, for your reading pleasure: Writing Beyond Words:
Metamorphosis, Schizophrenia and Hybridity in Ky and Rushdie
Watch out for the few pearly grains of interesting ideas nestled in a bland soufflé of passive sentence structures, further obfuscated by a rich gravy of nearly incomprehensible lit crit jargon. (In what other field could you get away with using words like “deterritorializing” and “textuality”?) You will enjoy this essay only if you have a large amount of time on your hands, know some French, and possess at least a passing interest in postmodern theory. Even then, no promises.
And here’s a blurry photo of me with Sir Rushdie:
(My mother’s reaction when she saw this photo — Suspicious tone: “What is this picture of you and that older gentleman?” Me: “You mean Salman Rushdie?” Mom: “Oh. Yes, that is who that is.”)
