Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children (Hardcover)  | Released: 2006

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.
Table of Contents: 1. Salman Rushdie�s �Midnight�s Children�: History and Fiction as Co-ordinates in Search for Meaning
�REENA MITRA
2. Salman Rushdie�s Midnight�s Children: A Reappropriation of India�s Recent Past
�FLORENCE D�SOUZA
3. Midnight�s Children: Fantasy as Matrix
�MADAN M. SARMA
4. Third World Literature as National Allegory: Salman Rushdie�s Midnight�s Children
�SHYAM S. AGARWALLA
5. Feminist Perspectives in Salman Rushdie�s Midnight�s Children
�RAMESH KUMAR GUPTA
6. Dichotomy of Vision as Central Structural Motifs in Midnight�s Children and Shame
�SEEMA BHADURI
7. Redefining History: Rushdie�s Novels as Literature of Subversion
�SOUMYAJIT SAMANTA
8. From the Postcolonial to Contemporary Reality of Globalization: Rushdie�s Late Novels
�PATRICK BIXBY
9. Shades of Fascism in the Fiction of Salman Rushdie
�NANDINI BHATTACHARYA
10. Negating the �Old Stable Ego of the Character�: Multiple Identity in the Novels of Rushdie
�MICHAEL HENSEN
11. Versions of the Postcolonial: Carnival, Masquerade and Grotesque Realism as Aspects of Rushdie�s World
�BLAIR MAHONEY
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