Kuortti, Joel editor. text bibliography Criticism, interpretation, etc. mau 2014 2014 monographic eng

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x, 272 pages ; 24 cm. About this volume ; Midnight's Children : more useful than the facts / Joel Kuortti ; Biography of Salman Rushdie / Joel Kuortti -- Rushdie's global modernism / John J. Su -- Under scrutiny : Midnight's Children and its critics / Joel Kuortti -- 'America, the great attractor, whispered in my ears' : from Bombay to New York : mapping geopolitical shifts in Rushdie's fiction / Marianne Corrigan -- From Salman Rushdie to Arundhati Roy : issues of continuity in Indian fiction in English / Anuradha Marwah -- Nasal connections : the possibility of ethical deconstruction in Midnight's Children / Tuomas Huttunen -- Faithful versus free : Padma and Saleem as competing translators / Jenni Ramone -- Topographies of nationalism in Midnight's Children / Ágnes Györke -- "A collective fiction" : the (de)construction of Nehruvian India in Midnight's Children / Raita Merivirta -- Indian oral narrative in postmodern historiography : a reading of Midnight's Children / Madan M. Sarma -- Bombay in Midnight's Children / Lotta Strandberg -- Fictions of the self : the reader, the subject, and the text in Midnight's Children and The Satanic Verses / Liani Lochner -- The play with the connotations of sexuality in Midnight's Children / Jūratė Radavičiūtė -- The role of the women characters in the nature/nurture and optimism/pessimism questions in Midnight's Children / Celia Wallhead. editor, Joel Kuortti, University of Turku, Finland. Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-238) and index. a-ii--- Rushdie, Salman Postcolonialism in literature Nationalism in literature Literature Nationalism in literature Postcolonialism in literature India In literature India PR6068.U757 M5335 2014 943.702 ENO 9781619253896 (hbk.) 1619253895 (hbk.) 2013497836 DON 141106 20170515151758.0 18363411 eng