By means of arranging intertextual approaches, Rushdie has problematized postmodernist representational systems of the West, specifically, its colonial and imperial discourse. Besides, his novels are interested in the study of Eastern cultural traditions and history, particularly those of India and Pakistan. As a postcolonialist writer, Rushdie attempts to deconstruct the colonial historical account of the colonizer and subvert it through the creation of another explanations and accounts. The inclusion of historical intertexts into the body of the novels allows him to subvert the incorporated events and personages and ultimately undermine the ideology behind them. This trial of colonialism and imperialism can be seen on the levels of form as
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The plot depicts the endeavours of Saleem Sinai to compose his autobiography. Saleem feels that his body is subsequently decomposing, that is why he takes the initiative to write about his life as a means of adding significance to his life. He looks upon this as the sole way of freeing of the imperfections in his identity and also body. It eliminates with Saleem’s confessing the particular time of his confinement. He feels obliged to utter the fact that he was born at the exact time of the liberation of India which was on Midnight of 15th August , 1947. Hence of Saleem’s precise stand as a midnight’s child born at the same time India gained its independence from the British colonial imperative, his life story enterprises together with with that of the nation. Saleem fuses his life with the political life of his nation. This insinuation of his birth gives the chance to Saleem to remark on the political as well as historical chronicles in the nation’s past. Meanwhile Saleem is, chained to history by his inadvertent birth; his biography emulates not only his individual memoir but also the complete antiquity of postcolonial India. This is the goal …show more content…
The storyteller here, tries to destabilise methodical historiography of the West and the supremacy that this historiography denotes by offering a non-linear and private his/story. What Rushdie seeks to do is to generate substitutes not merely to happenings but also to the discourse of past that describes these events. In the plot, destabilization of the alleged unprejudiced ancient discourse is achieved over the permutation of metafictional policies and historical authenticity. As it is about Saleem’s tussle to pen his story of life, in plentiful ways being private as differing to the impartiality of antiquity writing, the novel is by its very being about fiction inscription itself. If one ponders “the Chinese box structure” that Hutcheon puts to the fore in ‘Narcissistic Narrative’ as the essential component of metafictional narratives it is observed that Saleem, a fictional character himself, establishes his biography which entails of correspondingly fictional fundamentals that he makes up to suitable the past events into his description, henceforward performing the role of a novelist. He is the presenter in the novel but at the same time a author of his biography, and during his chronicle he repeatedly prompts the reader of the fictional nature of the story he is telling by means of his self-reflexive remarks. And the
The plot depicts the endeavours of Saleem Sinai to compose his autobiography. Saleem feels that his body is subsequently decomposing, that is why he takes the initiative to write about his life as a means of adding significance to his life. He looks upon this as the sole way of freeing of the imperfections in his identity and also body. It eliminates with Saleem’s confessing the particular time of his confinement. He feels obliged to utter the fact that he was born at the exact time of the liberation of India which was on Midnight of 15th August , 1947. Hence of Saleem’s precise stand as a midnight’s child born at the same time India gained its independence from the British colonial imperative, his life story enterprises together with with that of the nation. Saleem fuses his life with the political life of his nation. This insinuation of his birth gives the chance to Saleem to remark on the political as well as historical chronicles in the nation’s past. Meanwhile Saleem is, chained to history by his inadvertent birth; his biography emulates not only his individual memoir but also the complete antiquity of postcolonial India. This is the goal …show more content…
The storyteller here, tries to destabilise methodical historiography of the West and the supremacy that this historiography denotes by offering a non-linear and private his/story. What Rushdie seeks to do is to generate substitutes not merely to happenings but also to the discourse of past that describes these events. In the plot, destabilization of the alleged unprejudiced ancient discourse is achieved over the permutation of metafictional policies and historical authenticity. As it is about Saleem’s tussle to pen his story of life, in plentiful ways being private as differing to the impartiality of antiquity writing, the novel is by its very being about fiction inscription itself. If one ponders “the Chinese box structure” that Hutcheon puts to the fore in ‘Narcissistic Narrative’ as the essential component of metafictional narratives it is observed that Saleem, a fictional character himself, establishes his biography which entails of correspondingly fictional fundamentals that he makes up to suitable the past events into his description, henceforward performing the role of a novelist. He is the presenter in the novel but at the same time a author of his biography, and during his chronicle he repeatedly prompts the reader of the fictional nature of the story he is telling by means of his self-reflexive remarks. And the