LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 12 : 10 October 2012
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
         A. R. Fatihi, Ph.D.
         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
Assistant Managing Editor: Swarna Thirumalai, M.A.

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Salman Rushdie’s Art

R. Abeetha, M.A., M.Phil. in English

Rushdie’s First Novel – A Fantasy

Salman Rushdie is well known as a leading novelist among the writers of Indian English literature. He is also known as an effective but controversial writer in modern English fiction across the globe. Rushdie’s first novel Grimus (1975) was a fantasy which received unfavorable reviews. This novel was written for Victor Gollancz Science Fiction Competition. This book is, in fact, a quest novel with an imaginary setting that uses certain key ideas of Sufi poetry in the context of Western fantasy genre. This novel is rather difficult for a common reader and differs from his later novels in content.

Midnight’s Children – From Fantasy to Politics

Salman Rushdie shot into international fame with the publication of his second novel, Midnight’s Children in 1980. The book won the prestigious Booker McConnell prize for fiction in 1981 and was hailed as a literary masterpiece. The award gave it enormous publicity and media coverage, reviews and articles, radio features and interviews. This book mixes fact and fantasy.

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R. Abeetha, M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. Scholar
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