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- Title
Salman Rushdie as Diasporic Myth-Maker: Myth and Memory in Midnight's Children.
- Authors
BISWAS, POOJA MITTAL
- Abstract
This section critiques the 1981 novel "Midnight's Children," by Indian author Salman Rushdie. Topics discussed include the myth-making techniques employed by Rushdie in the narratives he presented about the Indian diaspora, the acknowledgment of collective memory, myth, and actual historical events in the novel, and brief details about the personality and mentality of the novel's narrator named Saleem Sinai.
- Subjects
MIDNIGHT'S Children (Book : Rushdie); RUSHDIE, Salman, 1947-; MYTH in literature; DIASPORA in literature; COLLECTIVE memory in literature; HISTORY in literature; NARRATORS in literature
- Publication
Journal of Comparative Literature & Aesthetics, 2020, Vol 43, Issue 1, p116
- ISSN
0252-8169
- Publication type
Literary Criticism