No longer a memoirist but a voyeur

Photographing and narrating Bombay in Salman Rushdie'sThe Ground Beneath Her Feet

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ID2178408
AuthorsCaroline Herbert (0000-0001-5895-8455)
Year2008
Volume44
Issue2
Pages139-150
Publication date2008-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Postcolonial Writing (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1744-9855 • E-ISSN: 1744-9863
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17449850802000522
OpenAlexW2005171389
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited5

This paper examines the relationship between photography and narration in Salman Rushdie's 1999 Rushdie, Salman. 1999. The Ground Beneath Her Feet, London: Cape. [Google Scholar] novel The Ground Beneath Her Feet in order to consider the changing representation of Bombay in the author's work. In this novel, Rushdie places a photographer‐narrator at the centre of his attempts to negotiate tensions between aesthetics and politics, offering a renegotiation of the relationship between the migrant and his homeland which has been a central concern of his work thus far. I suggest that Rai's photography enables Rushdie to establish a relationship between his changing representational strategies, his own altered position in relation to his place of birth, and the social transformations taking place within Bombay. At the same time, Rushdie positions the crisis in Rai's narration of Bombay as a strategic act of resistance to the rise of exclusionary politics within that city during the 1990s

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