Comparison between Salmaan Rushdi’s Midnight’s children and satanic verses
Name:Beenaba GohilPaper:11,Post-colonial literature
Roll no:14E-mail:[email protected]
Front page of the novel
Introduction• Sir Ahmad Salman Rushdie• British Indian novelist and essayist.
• Midnight's Children (1981), won the Booker Prize in 1981
• magical realism• The Satanic Verses (1988), was the subject of a major controversy
comparison
Mid night’s children• 1981• Background of the setting:
British colonialism toindependence and the partition of British India.
• postcolonial literature and magical realism.
• Booker Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1981
• Great Books of the 20th Century
Satanic verses• 1988• Background of thesetting:
india,mumbai(bollywood)• magical realism and relied on
contemporary events• Booker Prize finalist• won the 1988 Whitbread Award
for novel of the year• India and it was burned in
demonstrations • accused of misusing
freedom of speech
Main characters
Gibreel
Saladin
Saleem
Padma
Themes
Stannic verses Reincarnation Miracles Indian identity Exploitation Mental illness Racism Faith and doubt
Mid night’ children Post-Colonialism Miracles Naming as an Identity Mythology and the Epic
Story Boundaries and Borders Racism • The Unreliability of Oral
Storytelling
Common theme in the novel
• Miracles• Identity crisis• Racism• Faith and doubt
Conclusion
Here i take two book of one author, and one is man booker prise winner book and one of the best of 20th century.And second book is stannic verses which is banned in India and other Muslim country. the question is why , what is the reason of it.
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• According to Muslim countries there is a blasphemy the novel against Allah and Ayatollah Khomeini issues “fatawa” on Rushdi.
• where as Midnight's Children is a teeming fable of postcolonial India, told in magical-realist fashion by a telepathic hero born at the stroke of midnight on the day the country became independent.
Ayatollah Khomeini