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Shame Lesson Plan

Introduction to Shame

Shame is Salman Rushdie's third novel, published in 1983. It precedes his most famous and controversial novel, The Satanic Verses, which inspired Ayatollah Komeini, the then-leader of Iran, to issue a fatwa against him that called for his death. Like The Satanic Verses, the novel is concerned with Pakistani and Muslim life, postcolonial socio-political landscapes, and pushing novel conventions to their limits. Shame weaves a complex web between a set of characters who are all members of the elite in a postcolonial fictional country that is both implied and explicitly stated by the narrator to be an allegory for late 20th-century Pakistan.

Throughout the novel, Rushdie's narrator...

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