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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Reviews
"This is not the first account of how the Satanic Verses affair came about, but it is by far the most wide-ranging and best informed. It also includes equally authoritative accounts of numerous subsequent incidents such as the murder of the Dutch film-maker Theo van Gogh and the Danish cartoons controversy, which, it is convincingly argued here, need to be seen as ramifications of the Salman Rushdie case. But this is far more than simply a recital of the facts, richly detailed and highly informative though it most certainly is in this respect. For what we also have here is a resounding defence of the principles of free expression, not in the debased, self-interested and ill-informed manner in which the British press habitually defends its 'right' to do as it damn well pleases, but in highly sophisticated philosophical terms. This is a key contribution to the debate not only on the right to free expression, including the right to offend, but on media freedom in general in the post-Leveson era." - Julian Petley, Brunel University, UK
Authors and Affiliations
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University of Lincoln, UK
Brian Winston
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Rushdie Fatwa and After
Book Subtitle: A Lesson to the Circumspect
Authors: Brian Winston
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137388605
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Media & Culture Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-38859-9Published: 05 June 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-48208-5Published: 01 January 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-38860-5Published: 05 June 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 173
Topics: Ethics, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Sociology of Religion, Literary Theory, Cultural and Media Studies, general, Twentieth-Century Literature