Literary Controversies Since the Rushdie Affair
Claire Chambers
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Posted 19.11.2012
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The British protests against Rushdie's novel and these more recent protests are commonly understood in terms of the free speech versus religious offence argument. But it is important to think beyond this limiting binary to attain a greater degree of intercultural understanding in twenty-first century Britain.
