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An edition of Midnight's Children (2014)

Midnight's Children

This book provides in-depth critical discussions of Rushdie's novel, plus complimentary and unlimited online access to the full content of this great literary reference. Edited by Joel Kuortti, a specialist in Salman Rushdie's works and post-colonial and transcultural writing, this volume presents a variety of new essays on Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children. Midnight's Children marked a change in global literary scene as it inaugurated a heightened interest in writings from the formerly colonized countries. There had been post-colonial writings before but in its richness, full with magical realistic depiction and historiographical narration, Rushdie's novel became a trendsetter. Since its publication in 1981, Midnight's Children has been translated into several languages and, in 2012, adapted into a film. The essays in the volume discuss topics such as ethics, nationalism, translation, and the culture of globalization. Rounding out the volume is a bibliography of other important critical sources for readers seeking to study the novel and its themes further. - Publisher.

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Midnight's Children
2014, Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc., Grey House Publishing
Hardcover in English

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Table of Contents

About this volume / Joel Kuortti
The book and author.
Midnight's Children : more useful than the facts / Joel Kuortti
Biography of Salman Rushdie / Joel Kuortti
Critical contexts.
Rushdie's global modernism / John J. Su
Under scrutiny : Midnight's Children and its critics / Joel Kuortti
'America, the great attractor, whispered in my ears' : from Bombay to New York : mapping geopolitical shifts in Rushdie's fiction / Marianne Corrigan
From Salman Rushdie to Arundhati Roy : issues of continuity in Indian fiction in English / Anuradha Marwah
Critical readings.
Nasal connections : the possibility of ethical deconstruction in Midnight's Children / Tuomas Huttunen
Faithful versus free : Padma and Saleem as competing translators / Jenni Ramone
Topographies of nationalism in Midnight's Children / Ágnes Györke
"A collective fiction" : the (de)construction of Nehruvian India in Midnight's Children / Raita Merivirta
Indian oral narrative in postmodern historiography : a reading of Midnight's Children / Madan M. Sarma
Bombay in Midnight's Children / Lotta Strandberg
Fictions of the self : the reader, the subject, and the text in Midnight's Children and The Satanic Verses / Liani Lochner
The play with the connotations of sexuality in Midnight's Children / Jūratė Radavičiūtė
The role of the women characters in the nature/nurture and the optimism/pessimism questions in Midnight's Children / Celia Wallhead
Resources.
Chronology of Salman Rushdie's life
Works by Salman Rushdie
Bibliography
About the editor
Contributors

Edition Notes

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Ipswich, MA, Amenia, NY
Series
Critical insights

Classifications

Library of Congress
PR6068.U757 M5335 2014, PR6068.U757M5335, PR6068.U757 M536 2014

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
x, 272 p.
Dimensions
24 x x centimeters

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25643807M
ISBN 10
1619253895
ISBN 13
9781619253896
LCCN
2013497836
OCLC/WorldCat
869214948

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