Stephen J. Bell’s Global Migrancy and Diasporic Memory in the Work of Salman Rushdie provides an important reevaluation of Rushdie’s place in the postcolonial canon. Bell’s theoretically grounded and often beautiful readings of Rushdie’s major works overturn the scholarly consensus around Rushdie’s privilege, giving readers new insights into both Rushdie’s politics and his relationship to postmodern and postcolonial thought. In Bell’s deft hands, the connection between memory and migrancy in Rushdie’s fiction disrupts the easy binary of cosmopolitan rootlessness and national grounding. This brilliant, deeply humane study rediscovers in Rushdie a moral agent, not merely a disconnected cosmopolitan—one attempting to preserve the past from ‘the annihilation of time.’

- Dr. Sarah Hagelin, University of Colorado Denver,

Bell’s book is a significant contribution to the Rushdie scholarship. Focusing on the historicized artistic craftsmanship in a rich range of Salman Rushdie’s postmodern and postcolonial novels in the global context, Bell’s writing is rigorous, poignant, sophisticated, and poetic.

- Dr. Lingyan Yang, Indiana University of Pennsylvania,