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It is a striking entry in the light of how Fowler’s and others’ research into the colonial histories of the British countryside have been received. The Bradford book burning is mentioned in passing in Green Unpleasant Land, written by Professor Corinne Fowler and published by Peepal Tree Press in December 2020. Hitoshi Igarashi, who had translated The Satanic Verses into Japanese, was actually killed, and other translators and publishers associated with the book were violently attacked and critically injured.

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‘We live now,’ he wrote, ‘in a climate where every publisher and editor and politician has to weigh in advance the possibility of violent Muslim reprisal.’ This culture war was not simply a metaphor. Writing in Vanity Fair 20 years later, the British journalist and thinker Christopher Hitchens considered the fatwa against Salman Rushdie to be the opening shot of a cultural war on freedom of expression.Īccording to Hitchens, this too was successful. Rushdie went into hiding and spent many years living with police protection. Exactly one month after the book burning in Bradford, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, then Supreme Ruler of Iran, issued a public edict, or fatwa, calling for Rushdie’s death, along with the killing of all those involved in the publication of the book. Similar protests followed all around the world, some of which were violent. They wanted to bring attention to that fact and in this they were successful, possibly more than they could have imagined. The book was The Satanic Verses, a magical realist novel by the British-American author Salman Rushdie, parts of which the Muslim protestors believed to be blasphemous. While the press looked on, they brought out a copy of a book mounted on a wooden pole, held it aloft and set it on fire. On a freezing Bradford afternoon in January 1989, a thousand protestors came together with a common purpose.

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Green Unpleasant Land: Creative Responses to Rural England’s Colonial Connections by Professor Corinne Fowler















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