DIASPORIC PERSPECTIVE ON SALMAN RUSHDIE’S MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN Veronika Mondal, Research Scholar, Department of English Sri Satya Sai University of Technology and Medical sciences Sehore,Madhya Pradesh. Midnight 's Children is a fictional historical account of 20th century India. It is a novel about Indian independence, the partition and its aftermath. In the present paper an attempt has been made to study this fictional history of India in the light of the writing of diaspora. This paper tries
Midnight’s Children: Understanding the Dream of a Nation Nelber Bonifacio History and nation are the two main themes brought up by Salman Rushdie in the novel Midnight’s Children (1981). As the main character, Saleem Sinai, reflects extensively upon these themes, in the 80’ the novel was considered a post-colonial and a post-modern novel. In order to reflect upon these categorizations, I intend to explore the notion of history in which the novel takes place and the narrator’s claim of being materially
of modern life. Western attitudes toward India and Indian Literary came when Salman Rushdie’s novel Midnight’s Children was published in 1981. In the novel, Rushdie conjures up a generation of Indian born at midnight’s the August 1947. Arundhati Roy is one such talented writer of post- Midnight’s Children era who shows the real psychological depth while conveying the realities of culture and history. As with Arundhati Roy, Kiran Desai’s works also manages to explores the flaws and despair
In the novel Midnight’s Children, the relationship between the characters Saleem and Shiva is a very important and recurring theme. The relationship affects the narrative in many different ways. To understand this influence on the narrative, the relationship between Saleem and Shiva has to be described and explained. Saleem and Shiva are both born at the exact moment of India’s independence and their future lives are strongly related to that of the independent India. The children, and thereby their
The Postmodern Outlook of Memory in Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children, Winterson’s Written on the Body and Barnes’s The Sense of an Ending Narration involves the action of retrieving memory the vast majority of times and we all are storytellers sometime in the course of our lives. Not all of us are professional novelists, but we are sure to have been found narrating a story or some of our life events to other individuals. If you think of it, we are constantly in a flow of narratives, and to a good
Its messiah seems to have been Salman Rushdie. The appearance of Midnight’s Children in1981 brought about a renaissance in Indian writing in English which has outdone that of the 1930s. Its influence, acknowledged by critics and novelists alike, has been apparent in numerous ways.9 (Jon Mee.:2008, 318). Women novelists
Beautiful Launderette and Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children This paper attempts to study the postcolonial identity formation explored in Hanif Kureishi’s My Beautiful Launderette and Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children. Both Kureishi and Rushdie belong to a sect of Indian-Muslim writers that setelled abroad and proceed to build narratives that use characters determined by their homeland. As a result, both My Beautiful Launderette and Midnight’s Children use South-Asian characters that face an identity
Literature has always been an attractive media to illustrate wide ranges of representation of life; whether it is in written or oral form. Many authors often relate their or others’ experiences in real life while writing their works. Moreover, some may also add fantasy elements in their works that aim to simply draw the reader’s attention or even serve as a symbolism of particular things in real life. The fantasy element which is frequently used by the author in developing their work is the existence
Gender debate has its origin from the period unknown. The consequences of this debate are umpteen in number and interplay of dualities in women is one among them. Women in Salman Rushdie’s novels vividly display multiple dual elements inbuilt in them, and this paper deconstructs the mystery behind the split-personality of Aurora Zogoiby of Salman Rushdie’s The Moor’s Last Sigh. Just identifying the dual elements in her would be meaningless if the causes and origins of these dual elements are left
Project id 716563 Studies in Post colonialism Edited by Lilack Biswas Assistant Professor Dinabandhu Mahavidyalaya Bongaon North 24 Parganas West Bengal India Dedicated to the Lotus Feet of Mahatma Shri Narayan Goswami for being the Friend Philosopher and Guide and showering his limitless bliss on such an inferior soul like me. I express my cordial thanks to Professor Dr. Jayanta Mete for his continuous inspiration and encouragement Chapter 1 Salman