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- Title
From Englishness to Indianness: The Migrant's Experience in Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses.
- Authors
Sebastian, Judith
- Abstract
Salman Rushdie differs from the other diasporic writers in his representation of the immigrant experience in The Satanic Verses (1988) in many ways. One, Rushdie uses magical realism to portray the diasporic experience instead of resorting to a realistic experience. Two, his characters do not create a "third space" (as envisaged by Homi Bhabha) nor are they trapped in a "trishanku" state (as Uma Parameswaran posits).The other novelists either envisage an interstitial place for their characters in the adopted land or consider their characters' immigrant status as equivalent of an exile- from where they look back at their homeland with nostalgia and longing. Rushdie gives the foreign land a strikingly paradoxical positive value.
- Subjects
SATANIC Verses, The (Book : Rushdie); RUSHDIE, Salman, 1947-; MAGIC realism (Literature); PARAMESWARAN, Uma; IMMIGRANTS
- Publication
Labyrinth: An International Refereed Journal of Postmodern Studies, 2012, Vol 3, Issue 3, p187
- ISSN
0976-0814
- Publication type
Article