An imagination of pure wreckage can only grant women destructive, not regenerative, power

Evidence

For so wedded is Rushdie’s imagination to imageries of wholesale degradation and unrelieved social wreckage, so little is he able to conceive of a real possibility of regenerative projects on the part of the people who actually exist within our contemporary social reality, that even when he attempts, towards the end of the novel, to open up a regenerative possibility, in the form of Sufiya’s flight – and also her return, as Nemesis and all-devouring Fury – the powers which he, as author, bestows upon her in the moment of her triumph are powers only of destruction. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 259

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