Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Rushdie’s Tetralogy
Introduction
Chapter 1: Reading the Novels
Midnight’s Children
Chapter 2: The Child Is Father of the Man: Creating Progeny in Midnight’s Children
Chapter 3: Days Full of Potential Mothers and Possible Fathers: Saleem Sinai’s Multiple Family Romances
Chapter 4: “The Mother-Goddess In Her Most Terrible Aspect”: The Murder of Childhood and Dialogue
Shame
Chapter 5: Sins of the Parents: Monstrous Mothers and Absent Fathers
Chapter 6: “Discrete Parameters of a Family Squabble”: Family Antagonisms
The Satanic Verses
Chapter 7: Absent Fathers and Fallen Sons: The Satanic Verses
Chapter 8: “Pleasechu Meechu, Hopeyu Guessma Nayym”: Giving a Voice to Satanic Doubt
The Moor’s Last Sigh
Chapter 9: Uprooting the Family Tree: The Moor’s Last Sigh
Chapter 10: Conflicting Parents, Contesting Authors: Who Writes the Moor?
Chapter 11: From Ganesh to Dumbo: The First and the Last of the Family Novels
Select Bibliography
Index