The Invention of Truth. Salman Rushdie between Truth and Make-believe

Giuseppe De Riso is a researcher in English Literature at the University of Naples “L'Orientale”, where he also completed his Ph.D. in Cultural and Postcolonial Studies of the Anglophone World. He was also editorial assistant and webmaster for Anglistica AION, an interdisciplinary journal of the Department of Literary, Linguistic, and Comparative Studies of the University of Naples “L'Orientale”. He published two books: Affect and the Performative Dimension of Fear in the Indian English Novel: Tumults of the Imagination (Cambridge Scholars, 2018), and Affective Maps and Bio-mediated Bodies in Tridimensional Videogames of the Anglophone World (Tangram Edizioni Scientifiche, 2013). He also published different articles on Anglo-Indian literature and digital media, such as “Time out of Time: Transworld Identity and the Collapse of Ontological Boundaries in The Accidental by Ali Smith” (2022), “The Algebra of Anger. Social Oppression and Queer Intersectionality in Funny Boy and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness” (2021), “Writing with the Ghost: Specters of Narration in Anil’s Ghost by Michael Ondaatje” (2020), “Ethical Responsibility in Midnight’s Children. Clinical Storytelling as a Form of Biological and Cultural Survival” (2019), “Palimpsests of Power in Neel Mukherjee's The Lives of Others”, “Memory and Negotiations of Identity in Train to Pakistan”, “Of Smoke and Mirrors: Tribal Women in Postcolonial India” (2018) and “Gaming Gender: Virtual Embodiment as a Synaesthetic Experience” (2015). He is currently researching on English Post- and Metamodernism, the processes of transmedia convergence and contamination in literature, as well as ethnic-religious and gender issues in the Anglo-Indian novel.