Borderline fiction
Writing the nation in Salman Rushdie's midnight's children
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20155957 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Watson (0000-0002-2749-6136, North-West University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 213-227 |
| Publication date | 1998-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Literary Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0256-4718 • E-ISSN: 1753-5387 |
| Publisher | Unisa Press (PUBLISHER • ZA) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02564719808530196 |
| OpenAlex | W2043285329 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
This paper attempts to indicate that Salman Rushdie creates a postcolonial discourse in Midnight's Children (1995) that seeks to replace the traditional structures of the nation and history with new constructs suitable to the conditions of the diaspora: a new condition of homelessness and lack of history. This is done through the creation of an anti‐mimetic method of writing that reveals the nation and its history as artificial entities
Art · Astronomy · Diaspora · Literature · Midnight · Physics · Sociology · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · History · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |