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Midnight’s Children
by Salman Rushdie
On June 19, 1947, just two months before India’s independence and partition, (Ahmed) Salman Rushdie was born in Bombay, India. Like his father, R...
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The Indian/British author Ahmed Salman Rushdie (born 1947) was a political parablist whose work often focused on outrages of history and particularly of religions. His book The Satanic Verses earned h...
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Salman Rushdie embodies in his own life and in his writings the conundrums of the postcolonial author, writing within the tradition of Indo-English literature while simultaneously appealing to the con...
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Critical Essay by Anita Desai
[Because Midnight's Children relates] the progress of the political juggernaut through the Indian subcontinent—the juggernaut being literally a religious pr...
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Critical Essay by Clark Blaise
For a long time it has seemed that novels from India write their own blurbs: poised, witty, delicate, sparkling.
What this fiction has been missing is a different kind o...
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Critical Essay by Valentine Cunningham
India is so big, so crowded, so jammed full of the fascinatingly particular, so awingly representative of human variety, that a novel pretending to India as subj...
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Critical Essay by Robert Towers
In the bleakness of its vision, Midnight's Children is in many ways the counterpart of V. S. Naipaul's India: A Wounded Civilization, which appeared three...
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Critical Essay by K. B. Rao
Rushdie attempts to swallow all of India in his epic novel [Midnight's Children]. Therein lies his ambition and his downfall. He is authentic when he writes about Bo...
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Critical Essay by Maria Couto
One of the more curious aspects of the annual Booker Prize is the fact that in the eleven years since its inception it has been awarded four times to novels set in India ...
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In the following essay, Harrison examines the structure, scope, and thematic unity of Midnight's Children and Shame.
In Midnight's Children and Shame Salman Rushdie has presented the wor...
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In the following essay, Natarajan perceives the function of women in Midnight's Children to be a signifier for the changing social status quo of India.
In Salman Rushdie's Midnight...
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In the following essay, Heffernan argues that, in Midnight's Children, Rushdie explores “an alternative, though equally apocalyptic, concept of the nation, the Islamic umma.”
The ...
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In the following essay, Merivale investigates the influence of Günter Grass's The Tin Drum on Midnight's Children.
Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children (1981) is cha...
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In "Among the Ruins", Ian Baucom points out that, ."..if the nation is an imagined community, then the English nation is a community in mourning." As Baucom uses V.S. Naipaul's The Enigma of Arrival r...
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Midnight’s Children
Salman Rushdie
(Ahmed) Salman Rushdie
Critical Essay by Anita Desai
Ian Baucom and Midnight's Children, Wild Thorns, and Reading in the Dark
