Florian Stadtler is Lecturer in Global Literature at the University of Exeter, UK. Previously Research Fellow at The Open University, he has published on South Asian writing in English, Indian popular cinema and British Asian fiction and history. He is Reviews Editor for Wasafiri: The Magazine of International Contemporary Writing.

"Recommended."-- U. Anjaria, Brandeis University, CHOICE

• Introduction. 1. Creating ‘Imaginary Homelands’ 2. Heroines, Mothers and Villains: Cinema and Postcolonial National Identities in Midnight’s Children and Shame 3. Filming Rushdie: From Documentaries, Film Criticism to Screenplays 4. The The Satanic Verses and Shree 420: Negotiating Identity through Indian Popular Cinema 5. The Moor’s Last Sigh: Rewriting Mother India 6. The Ground Beneath Her Feet and Fury: Bollywood, Superstardom and Celebrity in the Age of Globalisation 7. Rushdie’s ‘Mission Kashmir’: Mughal-e-Azam and Shalimar the Clown. Conclusion.

Florian Stadtler is Lecturer in Global Literature at the University of Exeter, UK. Previously Research Fellow at The Open University, he has published on South Asian writing in English, Indian popular cinema and British Asian fiction and history. He is Reviews Editor for Wasafiri: The Magazine of International Contemporary Writing.

"Recommended."-- U. Anjaria, Brandeis University, CHOICE

• Introduction. 1. Creating ‘Imaginary Homelands’ 2. Heroines, Mothers and Villains: Cinema and Postcolonial National Identities in Midnight’s Children and Shame 3. Filming Rushdie: From Documentaries, Film Criticism to Screenplays 4. The The Satanic Verses and Shree 420: Negotiating Identity through Indian Popular Cinema 5. The Moor’s Last Sigh: Rewriting Mother India 6. The Ground Beneath Her Feet and Fury: Bollywood, Superstardom and Celebrity in the Age of Globalisation 7. Rushdie’s ‘Mission Kashmir’: Mughal-e-Azam and Shalimar the Clown. Conclusion.

Florian Stadtler is Lecturer in Global Literature at the University of Exeter, UK. Previously Research Fellow at The Open University, he has published on South Asian writing in English, Indian popular cinema and British Asian fiction and history. He is Reviews Editor for Wasafiri: The Magazine of International Contemporary Writing.

"Recommended."-- U. Anjaria, Brandeis University, CHOICE

• Introduction. 1. Creating ‘Imaginary Homelands’ 2. Heroines, Mothers and Villains: Cinema and Postcolonial National Identities in Midnight’s Children and Shame 3. Filming Rushdie: From Documentaries, Film Criticism to Screenplays 4. The The Satanic Verses and Shree 420: Negotiating Identity through Indian Popular Cinema 5. The Moor’s Last Sigh: Rewriting Mother India 6. The Ground Beneath Her Feet and Fury: Bollywood, Superstardom and Celebrity in the Age of Globalisation 7. Rushdie’s ‘Mission Kashmir’: Mughal-e-Azam and Shalimar the Clown. Conclusion.