Comparison between Salmaan Rushdi’s Midnight’s children and satanic verses

Name:Beenaba GohilPaper:11,Post-colonial literature

Roll no:14E-mail:binagohil1995@gmail.com

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