LEADER 04163nam 2200685 a 450 001 9910809771103321 005 20230912145045.0 010 $a1-282-86152-2 010 $a9786612861529 010 $a0-7735-7150-7 024 7 $a10.1515/9780773571501 035 $a(CKB)1000000000245014 035 $a(OCoLC)76898694 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10116370 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000284040 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11256029 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000284040 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10250400 035 $a(PQKB)10647828 035 $a(CaPaEBR)400168 035 $a(CaBNvSL)gtp00521209 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3330511 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10132692 035 $a(OCoLC)929120585 035 $a(DE-B1597)655513 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780773571501 035 $a(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/n3kxps 035 $a(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/1/400168 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3330511 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3242983 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000245014 100 $a20031117d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSelf, nation, text in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's children$b[electronic resource] /$fNeil Ten Kortenaar 210 $aMontr?eal ;$aLondon ;$aIthaca $cMcGill-Queen's University Press$dc2004 215 $a1 online resource (326 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-7735-2621-8 311 $a0-7735-2615-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [299]-309) and index. 327 $tFront Matter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $tWords and the World -- $tHybridity -- $tThe Allegory of History -- $tMagic Realism -- $tThe Self and the World -- $tBildungsroman -- $tParts and Whole -- $tLack and Desire -- $tWomen -- $tThe Nation and Its Others -- $tThe State -- $tCommunalism -- $tPakistan and Purity -- $tEngland and Mimicry -- $tThe Dispossessed and Romance -- $tHindu India -- $tCosmopolitanism and Objectivity -- $tConclusion -- $tGlossary for Salman Rushdie?s -- $tReferences -- $tIndex 330 $aMany 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. 606 $aNationalism in literature 606 $aSelf in literature 607 $aIndia$xIn literature 615 0$aNationalism in literature. 615 0$aSelf in literature. 676 $a823/.914 700 $aKortenaar$b Neil ten$01624320 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910809771103321 996 $aSelf, nation, text in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's children$94071809 997 $aUNINA