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Midnight’s Children Quotes
298 words, approx. 1 pages
 Midnight's Children (1980) by Salman Rushdie "Hell is other people's fantasies..." Source: "Abracadabra" "[T]here is no magic on earth strong enough to wipe out the legacies of one's parents." Source: "The Shadow of the Mosque" "Who what am I? My...



| Name: |
Salman Rushdie | | Variant Name: |
Ahmed Salman Rushdie | | Birth Date: |
June 19, 1947 | | Place of Birth: |
Bombay, India | | Nationality: |
Indian | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
writer |
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Biography of (Ahmed) Salman Rushdie
7076 words, approx. 23.6 pages
 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 conventions and tastes of a worldwide, especially Western...
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Biography of Salman Rushdie
1592 words, approx. 5.3 pages
 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 him a death sentence from the Iranian Ayatollah Ruholla...


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Midnights Children Summary
6,636 words, approx. 22 pages Midnights Children by Salman Rushdie On June 19, 1947, just two months before Indias independence and partition, (Ahmed) Salman Rushdie was born in Bombay, India. Like his father, Rushdie was well educatedfirst at Cathedral...
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Midnight’s Children Information
1,964 words, approx. 7 pages
 Midnight's Children is a 1981 novel by Salman Rushdie. It centres on the author's native India and was acclaimed as a major milestone in postcolonial literature. It won both the 1981 Booker Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for the same...




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Pakistan, Iran protest Rushdie award
6/20/2007: 379 words, approx. 1 pages Pakistan and Iran have summoned their British ambassadors to protest that author Salman Rushdie, accused of insulting Islam in his novel "The Satanic Verses," was to be honored with a knighthood.Iranian Foreign Ministry official Ebrahim Rahimpour told the British ambassador to Tehran, Geoffrey Adams, that...
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Iran condemns knighthood for Rushdie
6/17/2007: 372 words, approx. 1 pages Iran on Sunday condemned Britain's decision to knight Salman Rushdie, the author who was forced into hiding for a decade after the leader of the Iranian revolution ordered his assassination.Iran Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini said granting Britain's highest honor to Rushdie, whose novel...
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Pakistan lawmakers condemn Rushdie honor
6/18/2007: 304 words, approx. 1 pages Pakistani lawmakers passed a government-backed resolution Monday demanding Britain withdraw the knighthood awarded to author Salman Rushdie, condemning the honor as an insult to the religious sentiments of Muslims.In the eastern city of Multan, hard-line Muslim students burned effigies of Queen Elizabeth II and Rushdie....
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UK: Pakistani anti-Rushdie comment wrong
6/19/2007: 479 words, approx. 2 pages Britain told Pakistan on Tuesday that it was deeply concerned by a Pakistani minister's statement that the knighthood honoring "Satanic Verses" author Salman Rushdie could justify suicide attacks.Ambassador Robert Brinkley, Britain's high commissioner to Pakistan, conveyed the message after Pakistan's government summoned him to protest...



Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Teresa Heffernan
9,314 words, approx. 31 pages
 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.”
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Critical Essay by James Harrison
6,538 words, approx. 22 pages
 In the following essay, Harrison examines the structure, scope, and thematic unity of Midnight's Children and Shame.
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Critical Essay by Patricia Merivale
6,209 words, approx. 21 pages
 In the following essay, Merivale investigates the influence of Günter Grass's The Tin Drum on Midnight's Children.
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