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Title:

Midnight's children / editor, Joel Kuortti, University of Turku, Finland.

Publisher:

Salem Pressa division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ;

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

x, 272 pages : charts ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Rushdie, Salman.--Midnight's children.
Rushdie, Salman--Criticism and interpretation.
Postcolonialism in literature.
India--In literature.
Nationalism in literature.

Other Authors:

Kuortti, Joel, editor.

Notes:

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

Contents:

About this volume ; Midnight's Children : more useful than the facts ; 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 / ©gnes Gy©œrke -- "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 / J¿±rat♯ Radavi♯‍i¿±t♯ -- The role of the women characters in the nature/nurture and the optimism/pessimism questions in Midnight's Children / Celia Wallhead.

Series:

Critical insights

ISBN:

1619253895
9781619253896

OCLC:

(OCoLC)869214948

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

HYAX325 -- Iowa Lakes Community College Library - Estherville (Estherville)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)