“Conspicous Bodies is an exciting and highly intelligent work, which will make a strong impact in a series of very lively debates. It has just the right amount of iconoclasm and incisiveness to be thoroughly appealing to Joyce and Rushdie scholars, to postcolonial theorists, to people thinking about how religion works in literature, to people thinking how we might get beyond western models of selfhood and value. In recent years, I have seldom been as enthusiastic about a book as I am about this one. I recommend this book strongly.” —Enda Duffy, professor of English, University of California, Santa Barbara
“Jean Kane’s study, a critical assessment of Joyce and Rushdie's provocations against religious orthodoxy, should be essential reading for modernists, post colonialists as well as scholars who straddle these subdisciplines. In addition to approaching these authors' important novels and short stories with a fresh and often quite original lens, Kane engages with a wide array of current critical texts in Joyce studies and Rushdie studies. Her work makes an important contribution to the recent efflorescence of work on religion in Joyce in particular, and deepens our understanding of the many thematic and philosophical links between the two authors.” —Amardeep Singh, Lehigh University