04163nam 2200685 a 450 991080977110332120230912145045.01-282-86152-297866128615290-7735-7150-710.1515/9780773571501(CKB)1000000000245014(OCoLC)76898694(CaPaEBR)ebrary10116370(SSID)ssj0000284040(PQKBManifestationID)11256029(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000284040(PQKBWorkID)10250400(PQKB)10647828(CaPaEBR)400168(CaBNvSL)gtp00521209 (Au-PeEL)EBL3330511(CaPaEBR)ebr10132692(OCoLC)929120585(DE-B1597)655513(DE-B1597)9780773571501(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/n3kxps(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/1/400168(MiAaPQ)EBC3330511(MiAaPQ)EBC3242983(EXLCZ)99100000000024501420031117d2004 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrSelf, nation, text in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's children[electronic resource] /Neil Ten KortenaarMontr?eal ;London ;Ithaca McGill-Queen's University Pressc20041 online resource (326 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-7735-2621-8 0-7735-2615-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-309) and index.Front Matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Words and the World -- Hybridity -- The Allegory of History -- Magic Realism -- The Self and the World -- Bildungsroman -- Parts and Whole -- Lack and Desire -- Women -- The Nation and Its Others -- The State -- Communalism -- Pakistan and Purity -- England and Mimicry -- The Dispossessed and Romance -- Hindu India -- Cosmopolitanism and Objectivity -- Conclusion -- Glossary for Salman Rushdie’s -- References -- IndexMany non-Indian readers find the historical and cultural references in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children demanding. In his close reading of the novel, Neil ten Kortenaar offers post-colonial literary strategies for understanding Midnight's Children that also challenge some of the prevailing interpretations of the novel. Using hybridity, mimicry, national allegory, and cosmopolitanism, all key critical concepts of postcolonial theory, ten Kortenaar reads Midnight's Children as an allegory of history, as a Bildungsroman and psychological study of a burgeoning national consciousness, and as a representation of the nation. He shows that the hybridity of Rushdie's fictional India is not created by different elements forming a whole but by the relationship among them. Self, Nation, Text in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children also makes an original argument about how nation-states are imagined and how national consciousness is formed in the citizen. The protagonist, Saleem Sinai, heroically identifies himself with the state, but this identification is beaten out of him until, in the end, he sees himself as the Common Man at the mercy of the state. Ten Kortenaar reveals Rushdie's India to be more self-conscious than many communal identities based on language: it is an India haunted by a dark twin called Pakistan; a nation in the way England is a nation but imagined against England. Mistrusting the openness of Tagore's Hindu India, it is both cosmopolitan and a specific subjective location.Nationalism in literatureSelf in literatureIndiaIn literatureNationalism in literature.Self in literature.823/.914Kortenaar Neil ten1624320MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910809771103321Self, nation, text in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's children4071809UNINA