History And National Theme In The Novels Of Salman Rushdie

Author : Chamsul Alom Sorowarthy
Publisher : BFC Publications
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-14
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9789390675197

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History and National theme in the novels of Salman Rushdie by Chamsul Alom Sorowarthy Pdf

As a Politicized Novelist Sir Salman Rushdie is perhaps the most prominent living writer. He emerged over the years as one of the most controversial figures of our times who excites contrary feelings. In his comprehensive and lucid critical study the writer examines the intellectual, bio graphical, Historical works of Rushdie. The book is compiled works of almost all the arena of Historical, National and self deals with the problem of immigration, racial discrimination, cultural hybridity. He also deals with many allegories , political, mythological and historical allegories. He brilliantly fused the idea of post colonialism and post modernism. His novels has special flavor of post modern device like Magic Realism the award of Booker prize to Midnight’s children in 1981 led Rushdie’s near contemporary Kazuo ishiguru later a winner of Booker prize himself. To conclude that the publication of this novel represented a ‘symbolic moment’, a ‘milestone’ for English language authors living in Britain whose origins were not British.’

Author : Dr.Keshav Nath,Dr.Nidhi Sharma
Publisher : Shanlax Publications
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9788119042227

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Migration, Trauma and Identity in Modern Indian Novels by Dr.Keshav Nath,Dr.Nidhi Sharma Pdf

Drawing on a wealth of research, personal stories, and clinical insights, this book offers a nuanced and compassionate look at the profound impact of trauma on identity. It invites readers to explore the complex ways in which trauma can influence our beliefs, behaviors, relationships, and sense of purpose, as well as the challenges and opportunities that arise when we seek to reclaim our sense of self after trauma. From the lasting impact of childhood abuse to the challenges of navigating cultural and societal expectations, the book offers a deep and insightful exploration of the many ways in which trauma can shape identity. It also offers practical tools and strategies for those who are grappling with the aftermath of trauma, and for those who support them. Ultimately, this book is a powerful exploration of the ways in which trauma can shape our identities and our lives. It is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit and a call to action for greater understanding and empathy.

Author : H. S. Komalesha
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 3039111124

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Issues of Identity in Indian English Fiction by H. S. Komalesha Pdf

Rapid developments in the fields of trade, market, commerce and telecommunication technologies, together with cultural confrontations at the global level are creating a paradigmatic shift in people's understanding of selfhood and identity. This book makes a serious attempt to trace and map out the making of contemporary post-national identities within the subcontinental cultural production of India and in its English Fiction. One of the structural ventures of this study is that these newer identities, which are basically fragmented, ruptured, hyphenated, and palimpsestic in nature, require new descriptions and new elaborations within the field of creative literature and literary criticism. In order to pursue its research on these lines, the present work contrasts the notion of subjecthood and identity with the earlier phases of Indian cultural imagination as represented in some of the pioneering works of Indian English Fiction that have now attained a canonical status. By analysing some of the predominant concerns that work as leitmotif in most of the Indian English novels, the book brings together and reinterprets some problematic concepts such as history, culture, religion, nation and nationalism and creates a theoretical axis upon which it charts insightful and engaging aspects of selfhood and identity.

Author : Ajay K Chaubey et al.
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783656896791

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Salman Rushdie. An Anthology of Critical Essays in New Millennium by Ajay K Chaubey et al. Pdf

Document from the year 2014 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, , language: English, abstract: Famous for multifarious writing, Salman Rushdie himself is a multifaceted personality, often emerges as an unpredictable figure with an unfathomable depth of creativity and criticism. Being an iconoclast, Rushdie never chooses the trodden road: he rather plunges headstrong into the unexplored territories of literature, not yet attempted. The present volume strives to find how Rushdie is germane in the twenty first century politics of globalization, literary schema, and cosmopolitanism. The book has been divided into two broad heads—the first section intrinsically deals with the most popular book of Rushdie, Midnight’s Children while the second section contains Rushdie’s latter fictions which have been researched and presented in the light of intertextuality, hybridity, diaspora and, of late, autobiography. The essays are written by Suhaina Bi, Sutanuka Ghosh Roy, Ram Bahawan Yadav, T. Sasikanth Reddy, Asis De, Vikrant Sehgal, Indah Lestari, Ajit Kumar, Hetal K. Kachhia, Hetal M. Doshi, Nesha Sabar/Pramod Kumar Das, Ramesh Tibile, Bini B. S., Manjeet Kumar Kashyap and Valiur Rahaman.

Author : Dr. Abhibunnisha Begum
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780359468935

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A CRITICAL STUDY OF THE SELECT NOVELS OF SALMAN RUSHDIE by Dr. Abhibunnisha Begum Pdf

Author : Salman Rushdie
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04-22
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780307538383

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Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie Pdf

The original stage adaptation of Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children, winner of the 1993 Booker of Bookers, the best book to win the Booker Prize in its first twenty-five years. In the moments of upheaval that surround the stroke of midnight on August 14--15, 1947, the day India proclaimed its independence from Great Britain, 1,001 children are born--each of whom is gifted with supernatural powers. Midnight’s Children focuses on the fates of two of them--the illegitimate son of a poor Hindu woman and the male heir of a wealthy Muslim family--who become inextricably linked when a midwife switches the boys at birth. An allegory of modern India, Midnight’s Children is a family saga set against the volatile events of the thirty years following the country’s independence--the partitioning of India and Pakistan, the rule of Indira Gandhi, the onset of violence and war, and the imposition of martial law. It is a magical and haunting tale, of fragmentation and of the struggle for identity and belonging that links personal life with national history. In collaboration with Simon Reade, Tim Supple and the Royal Shakespeare Society, Salman Rushdie has adapted his masterpiece for the stage.

Author : Rositta Joseph Valiyamattam
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443814300

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Personal and National Destinies in Independent India by Rositta Joseph Valiyamattam Pdf

Personal and National Destinies in Independent India is an innovative analysis of the interface between individual lives and national history, between citizen and state in modern India, as reflected in contemporary fiction. It critiques the selected works of a host of distinguished Indian English novelists such as Gurcharan Das, Arun Joshi, Rohinton Mistry, Arundhati Roy, Meher Pestonji, Kiran Desai, Vikas Swarup, David Davidar, Aravind Adiga, Manjula Padmanabhan and Tarun Tejpal. The author offers a new interpretation of twelve major novels with reference to the enormous framework of nearly seventy years of the history and politics, culture and economy of independent India. This is a study of fiction that re-writes the grand Indian narrative from a genuine, subaltern point of view and pays tribute to the heroism of ordinary Indians in times of extraordinary transformation. In these times of conflict and disparity which threaten democratic values, these novelists advocate an inclusive and humane India with a strong moral core instead of aggressive or elitist nationalism. They represent an era of painful introspection, an attempt to keep the soul of the nation alive. This unique project would be of interest to students and scholars of Literature, Political Science and History, especially Post-colonial studies. The vast scope of the time period, geographical expanse, social groups, writers and works covered here makes the work comprehensive and contemporary; very few such works on recent Indian history and fiction exist as of now.

Author : Yael Maurer
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476614021

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The Science Fiction Dimensions of Salman Rushdie by Yael Maurer Pdf

This book focuses on the science fictional dimensions of Rushdie's later novels, Fury, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Shalimar the Clown and Luka and the Fire of Life, and Rushdie's first unpublished novel, The Antagonist, to show how the author's oeuvre moves towards a more consistent engagement with science fiction as a generic form and an ideological investment. The author demonstrates how Rushdie recreates personal and national histories in a science fictional setting and mode, and contends that the failure of his first novel Grimus may have led Rushdie away from SF for some time, although he returns to it with a much firmer conviction and a much stronger voice in his later novels, showing his commitment to this imaginative form which he describes in Fury as providing "the best popular vehicle ever devised for the novel of ideas and metaphysics."The science fictional mode is the most appropriate vehicle for expressing these thematic and ideological concerns and the organizing feature of Rushdie's oeuvre. The author rereads the later novels in light of recent critical engagement with SF as a vehicle for reimagining national histories and as a potentially subversive tool for social and political engagement in a fictional realm.

Author : A. N. Kaul
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-04
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781000260281

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The Domain of the Novel by A. N. Kaul Pdf

The Domain of the Novel: Reflections on Some Historical Definitions discusses the genre of the novel and its dialogic and dialectical characteristics through an in-depth analysis of some classic English, Russian, American and Indian novels. A collection of lectures by the distinguished scholar of literature, A. N. Kaul, it analyses the exploration of personal voices and histories within a larger socio-political landscape in these works. Drawing examples from the works of Fielding, George Eliot, Dickens, Thackeray, Melville, Hawthorne, Twain, R.K. Narayan and others, who defined and redefined the territories of the novel, this book examines the articulation of the lived social, political and material realities of ordinary individuals in this genre. The lectures situate the novels within their cultural, socio-political, and historical contexts while focusing on their historical continuity and relevance. They further demonstrate how the domain of the novel brings together a multitude of voices while discussing conflicts of class, identity, nationalism, and historiography. The volume includes an insightful critical introduction by Sambudha Sen. It will be of great interest to researchers and scholars of literature, cultural studies, post-colonial studies, literary theory, creative writing, history, and sociology. It will be especially useful for readers interested in studying forms of fiction and the 18th, 19th, and 20th century novel.

Author : Brian Hamnett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199695041

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The Historical Novel in Nineteenth-Century Europe by Brian Hamnett Pdf

Brian Hamnett examines key historical novels by Scott, Balzac, Manzoni, Dickens, Eliot, Flaubert, Fontane, Galdós, and Tolstoy, revealing the contradictions inherent in this form of fiction and exploring the challenges writers encountered in attempting to represent a reality that linked past and present.

Author : Salman Rushdie
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307367754

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Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie Pdf

Winner of the Booker prize and twice winner of the Booker of Bookers, Midnight's Children is "one of the most important books to come out of the English-speaking world in this generation" (New York Review of Books). Reissued for the 40th anniversary of the original publication--with a new introduction from the author--Salman Rushdie's widely acclaimed novel is a masterpiece in literature. Saleem Sinai is born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, the very moment of India’s independence. Greeted by fireworks displays, cheering crowds, and Prime Minister Nehru himself, Saleem grows up to learn the ominous consequences of this coincidence. His every act is mirrored and magnified in events that sway the course of national affairs; his health and well-being are inextricably bound to those of his nation; his life is inseparable, at times indistinguishable, from the history of his country. Perhaps most remarkable are the telepathic powers linking him with India’s 1,000 other “midnight’s children,” all born in that initial hour and endowed with magical gifts. This novel is at once a fascinating family saga and an astonishing evocation of a vast land and its people–a brilliant incarnation of the universal human comedy. Midnight’s Children stands apart as both an epochal work of fiction and a brilliant performance by one of the great literary voices of our time.

Author : Reena Mitra
Publisher : Atlantic Publishers & Dist
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Developing countries
ISBN : 812690688X

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Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children by Reena Mitra Pdf

Salman Rushdie S Midnight S Children, Ever Since Its Publication In 1980, Has Been Considered An Ingenious Piece Of Literary Art And A Trendsetter In The Field Of Indian Fiction In English. The Stupendous Success Of This Novel Broke All Previous Records And Rushdie Was Hailed As One Who Engendered A Whole New Generation Of Fiction Writers That Embraced Magical Realism As A Mode For The Depiction Of History. The Variant Mode Of The Portrayal Of Historical Reality That Rushdie Adopts In Midnight S Children Is Characteristically His Own And His Fantasizing Of Facts In This Novel Inspired A Host Of Other Writers To Offer, In Their Respective Works, Their Own Blends Of Fact And Fiction.Midnight S Children Is A Multi-Faceted Novel Which Lends Itself To Analysis From Various Angles And Perspectives. Be It From The Point Of View Of Structure Or Content, The Work Yields A Richness That Has Been Variously Explored By The Scholars Who Have Contributed To This Anthology Of Essays On It.

Author : O. P. Bhatnagar
Publisher : Sarup & Sons
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Feminism in literature
ISBN : 8176257990

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Indian Political Novel in English by O. P. Bhatnagar Pdf

Author : Salman Rushdie
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009-02-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307371669

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The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie Pdf

A tall, yellow-haired young European traveller calling himself “Mogor dell’Amore,” the Mughal of Love, arrives at the court of the real Grand Mughal, the Emperor Akbar, with a tale to tell that begins to obsess the whole imperial capital. The stranger claims to be the child of a lost Mughal princess, the youngest sister of Akbar’s grandfather Babar: Qara Köz, ‘Lady Black Eyes’, a great beauty believed to possess powers of enchantment and sorcery, who is taken captive first by an Uzbeg warlord, then by the Shah of Persia, and finally becomes the lover of a certain Argalia, a Florentine soldier of fortune, commander of the armies of the Ottoman Sultan. When Argalia returns home with his Mughal mistress the city is mesmerised by her presence, and much trouble ensues. The Enchantress of Florence is a love story and a mystery – the story of a woman attempting to command her own destiny in a man’s world. It brings together two cities that barely know each other – the hedonistic Mughal capital, in which the brilliant emperor wrestles daily with questions of belief, desire and the treachery of sons, and the equally sensual Florentine world of powerful courtesans, humanist philosophy and inhuman torture, where Argalia’s boyhood friend ‘il Machia’ – Niccolò Machiavelli – is learning, the hard way, about the true brutality of power. These two worlds, so far apart, turn out to be uncannily alike, and the enchantments of women hold sway over them both. But is Mogor’s story true? And if so, then what happened to the lost princess? And if he’s a liar, must he die?

Author : Şennur Bakırtaş
Publisher : Transnational Press London
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781801351331

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Re-Shaping Culture and Identity in Postcolonial Fiction: Salman Rushdie and Abdulrazak Gurnah by Şennur Bakırtaş Pdf

One of the most fascinating, rapidly developing, and difficult areas of literary and cultural studies today is postcolonialism. Focused on postcolonialism and designed especially for those studying postcolonial studies, Re-Shaping Culture and Identity in postcolonial Fiction: Salman Rushdie and Abdulrazak Gurnah introduces key subject areas of concern such as culture and identity in a clear accessible and organised fashion. It provides an overview of the development of postcolonialism as a discipline and takes a close look at its important authors, Salman Rushdie and Abdulrazak Gurnah, and their selected oeuvres, Fury, Midnight’s Children, By the Sea and Memory of Departure. With a palimpsestic analysis of culture and identity as crucial features of postcolonial texts, Re-Shaping Culture and Identity in postcolonial Fiction: Salman Rushdie and Abdulrazak Gurnah argues how postcolonialism functions in allowing the formation of a new perspective on the contemporary world. Besides, it offers an alternative perspective on their works, one that promotes the importance of the issue of postcolonial agency. This book will prove invaluable to anyone studying English Language and Literature, Migration Studies, and Cultural Studies. Contents Introduction: the borders of culture and identity A critical approach to culture and identity under the light of postcolonial theory The contributons of Abdulrazak Gurnah and Salman Rushdie to postcolonial literature Non- homes in postcolonial culture (Un)belonging postcolonial identity Conclusion: towards a new understanding of culture and identity Bibliography