Midnight's children /

Midnight's children / editor, Joel Kuortti, University of Turku, Finland. - x, 272 pages ; 24 cm. - Critical insights . - Critical insights. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-238) and index.

About this volume ; Midnight's Children : more useful than the facts / Joel Kuortti ; Biography of Salman Rushdie / Joel Kuortti -- 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 -- 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 / �Agnes Gy�orke -- "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 / Jurate Radaviciute -- The role of the women characters in the nature/nurture and optimism/pessimism questions in Midnight's Children / Celia Wallhead.

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Rushdie, Salman. Midnight's children.
Rushdie, Salman--Criticism and interpretation.


Postcolonialism in literature.
Nationalism in literature.


India--In literature.

PR 6068 .U757 / M5335 2014