Midnight's Children Summary
Salman Rushdie

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... Read more

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... Read more

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 p... Read more

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 sub... Read more

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 B... Read more

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 ... Read more

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.” T... Read more

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... Read more