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The Riddles of Midnight: Critical Study Prepared by: Lajja Bhatt Postcolonial Literature Roll no 16 Enrollment No: PG13101003 Sem III Department of English Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University Bhavnagar

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The Riddles of Midnight: Critical Study

Prepared by: Lajja Bhatt

Postcolonial Literature

Roll no 16 Enrollment No: PG13101003

Sem III

Department of English

Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University

Bhavnagar

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Salman Rushdie• Salman Rushdie is an intelligent arbiter

• It is difficult to distinct him as novelist or

essayist or travel writer,screen writer etc.

• Controversial surroundings.

• Having great erudite.

• He remains aloof from ordinary sphere of

existence, abstract, aloof and distance.

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Imaginary Homelands• ‘books that draw new and better maps of reality,

and make new languages with which we can understand the world.’(Salman Rushdie)

• ‘I’ Narrator.

• Having symbols, figures from different myth systems

• Cultural exchange cheapen the literature.

• ‘is history to be considered the property of the participants solely?’ (Shame- Rushdie)

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The Riddles of Midnight

• The India is the one nation and Pakistan is another. Both are the ‘children of the midnight’ of 15th August, 1947.

• Does India Exist?

• There can be word used for such big territory & realm with great natural resources, is ‘commualism

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The Riddles of Midnight

• Communal Riots and Faith

• ‘ After all these religions are only words.whatis behind them is the same whichever faith is.’

• Here nationalism is in the mouth of the people but hardly found in heart.

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The Riddles of Midnight

• The language of Rushdie is lucid.

• But it has some throny sharpness which pinch the reader’s mind.

• Rushdie also uses the parenthesis in the illustrative way.

• He has given good examples to elaborate his point and makes arguments rhetoric.

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References

• http://www.indiamarks.com/Salman-Rushdie-An-author-novelist-essayist-and-sometime-critic/

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxd19zXorWY&feature=player_embedded

• Shame

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