Critical Insights: Midnight's Children

Publisher Salem Press

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Salem Press

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Copyright

2014

ISBN13

9781619253902

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eBook

Grade Level

9th Grade - College Senior

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Overview

In-depth critical discussions of Rushdie's novel.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
About This Volume.
The Book and Author.
1: Midnight's Children: More Useful than the Facts.
2: Biography of Salman Rushdie.
Critical Contexts.
3: Rushdie's Global Modernism.
4: Under Scrutiny: Midnight's Children and Its Critics.
5: ‘America, the Great Attractor, whispered in my ears’: From Bombay to New York; Mapping Geopolitical Shifts in Rushdie's Fiction.
6: From Salman Rushdie to Arundhati Roy: Issues of Continuity in Indian Fiction in English.
Critical Readings.
7: Nasal Connections: The Possibility of Ethical Deconstruction in Midnight's Children.
8: Faithful versus Free: Padma and Saleem as Competing Translators.
9: Topographies of Nationalism in Midnight's Children.
10: “A Collective Fiction”: The (De)construction of Nehruvian India in Midnight's Children.
11: Indian Oral Narrative in Postmodern Historiography: A Reading of Midnight's Children.
12: Bombay in Midnight's Children.
13: Fictions of the Self: The Reader, the Subject, and the Text in Midnight's Children and The Satanic Verses.
14: The Play with the Connotations of Sexuality in Midnight's Children.
15: The Role of the Women Characters in the Nature/Nurture and the Optimism/Pessimism Questions in Midnight's Chiidren.
Resources.
Chronology of Salman Rushdie's Life.
Works by Salman Rushdie.
Bibliography.
About the Editor.
Contributors.
Index.
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