Postmodernism in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children (1981).

Abstract

The present study aims at analysing aspects of postmodernism in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children (1981). The main argument is that Rushdie’s Midnight’s children is a good example of postmodern novel because it makes use of multiple postmodern techniques such as magical realism, intertextuality and ambiguity etc. In addition, those techniques are deployed by the author to express certain thematic concerns that reflect contemporary Indian culture and history. The dissertation consists of three chapters. The first chapter is a theoretical investigation of postmodernism in literature and its influence on writers in Britain and especially minor writers. The second chapter examines the use of different postmodern techniques at different levels in the novel. The third chapter discusses the thematic concerns and how they are approached from a postmodern perspective within the novel.