Teacher Guide

Shame Lesson Plan

Relationship to Other Books

Shame is Salman Rushdie's third novel, published in 1983. It precedes his most famous novel, The Satanic Verses. Other works of Rushdie's considered to be essential to understanding his thematic and subjective concerns include Midnight's Children, The Moor's Last Sigh, and Imaginary Homelands: Essays.

Salman Rushdie's novels are largely considered to be postcolonial works, works concerned with representing or exploring the socio-political landscape of postcolonial nations and places. Other postcolonial works written by subjects of colonialism and/or their descendants include Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy, and Half of a Yellow Sun by...

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