Crusaders

slight suspicion of unchastity may obligate a man to murder his own wife or daughter in an attempt to redeem his sense of honor. It was just such a killing that served as one of the main inspirations for the book. In this novel Rushdie continued his crusade to explore sexual topics frankly (although not in particularly graphic language), inspiring many followers, such as Khushwant Singh (Delhi, 1990) and Upamanyu Chatterjee (English, August, 1988). But sex in Rushdie is associated primarily not with

support. What is eurocentrism (for those who have not heard yet)? In general terms, it is the privileging of (white) European/American discourse over others, most often African or Asian; in history, it might mean privileging the European account of the Crusades, or of the Opium Wars, or any imperialist episode over the ‘other side’. For what it might mean in mathematics, we should go back to Joseph who, at the time he began his project (in the 1980s), had a strong, passionate, and undeniable point. If we