This essay laid the intellectual groundwork for the "new" English literature that would explode in the 1980s and 90s—the works of Chinua Achebe, V.S. Naipaul (whom Rushdie often sparred with), and later, Zadie Smith and Hanif Kureishi. It gave them permission to break the rules of syntax and narrative structure.
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