Salman Rushdie, The Jaguar Smile

Andrew Teverson (Kingston University)
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The Jaguar Smile

is Salman Rushdie's first, and to date only full length work of non-fiction (if we exclude his essay length pamphlet on

The Wizard of Oz

). It was written shortly after Rushdie, taking a break from the composition of

The Satanic Verses

, visited Nicaragua as a guest of the Sandinista Association of Cultural Workers (ASTC) - “the umbrella organisation that brought writers, artists, musicians, craftspeople, dancers and so on, together under the same roof” (

The Jaguar Smile

, 2nd ed., 4). The occasion of his visit, Rushdie tells us, was the seventh anniversary of the “triumph” of the

Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional

(Sandinista National Liberation Front) - when the Somoza dictatorship collapsed and the Sandinistas took power (later receiving a 63% public…

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Citation: Teverson, Andrew. "The Jaguar Smile". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 13 October 2004 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=16596, accessed 28 March 2024.]

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