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Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children

S. Bhuvaneshwari


Abstract

In this paper I deal with the novel Midnight's Children’, in which Salman Rushdie has given us the history of the protagonist by narrating the story about himself. In this novel, he deals with Saleem Sinai, the protagonist, one of the midnight children. Saleem, the person who has the curse of impotency, is narrating his own story. At one stage, he forgets all those things that happened in his life and even forgets his name. During that time Rushdie introduces one more character named Parvati the witch, another midnight child and born with the gift of sorcery. And she is the person who helped Saleem to escape from Dacca in the wicker basket, and they fly back to Delhi. The whole paper gives us many views about the political rebirth of Mrs. Indira Gandhi and how Saleem tumbled out of Parvati's magic basket in the ghetto of magicians near Delhi's Friday Mosque. It also explains the dream of Saleem to serve the nation, as well as explaining about the communists, magicians and bureaucrats. Soon there is the marriage proposal by Indira Sarkar for Parvati to marry Saleem Sinai. But he refuses to marry her because he is cursed with impotence.

Rushdie’s Second Novel Midnight's Children

Salman Rushdie remains a major Indian writer in English. His birth coincided with the birth of a new modern nation on August 15, 1947. He has been justly labeled by the critics as a post-colonial writer who knows his trade well. His second novel Midnight's Children was published in 1981 and it raised a storm in the hitherto middle-class world of fiction. Both writing in English, Raja Rao and R. K. Narayan tried to uphold in their fiction the mainstream politics and purity of Brahmanical order, while Rushdie for the first time burst into the world of fiction with subversive themes like impurity, illegitimacy, plurality and hybridity. He understands that a civilization called India may be profitably understood as a dream a collage of many colours, a blending of cultures and nationalities, a pluralistic society and in no way unitary.

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S. Bhuvaneshwari
Adhiyaman Arts and Science College for Women
Uthangarai 635306
Tamilnadu
India
bhuvisuji92@gmail.com

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