3 Review(s)

This volume brings together ten essays on Midnight's Children (1980) and an interview with Salman Rushdie that discuss this seminal novel from different perspectives. Rushdie's innovative use of history and memory,his experiments with language and narrative mode.the novel's status as the paradigmatic post-colonial text, its inter-textuality and self reflexivity, the influence on subsequent novels.the authors's relationship with India as an insider-outsider are some of the many issues explored by the critics. About Author : Meenakshi Mukherjee is the author of The Twice Born Fiction : Themes and techniques of the Indian Novel in English (1971), Realism and Reality: Novel and Society in India (1985), Re-reading Jane Austen (1991) and The Perishable Empire(2000). Among volumes edited by her are Considerations : Twelve Studies of Indian Writing in English (1977) and Rajmohan's Wife (1994). She has co-edited Narrative: Forms and Transformations(1986), Another India (1990) and Interrogating Postcolonialism (1996). Her latest project, a study of history and fiction will be her first book written in Bangla and is due to appear later this year. Mukherjee has tatught in several ;universities in India and abroad,the largest spell being at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi as Professor of English. At present she is an Honorary Professor, University of Hyderabad. Contents : Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. Midnitht's Children and the Allegory of History 3. History as Gossip in Midnight's Children 4. Salman ;the Funtoosh : Magic Bilingualism ;in Midnight's Children 5. The Art of Suspense : Rushdie's 1001(Mid-) Nights 6. Midnight's Children and Tristram Shandy 7. Saleem Fathered by Oskar : Intertextual Strategies in Midnight's Children and The Tin Drum 8. The Indian English Novel : Kim and Midnight's Children 9. Midnight's Children and its Indian Con-Texts 10 Woman,Nation,and Narration in Midnight's Children 11 Victim into Protagonist ? Midnight's Children and the Post-Rushdie National Narratives on the Eightics 12 Doing the Dangerous Thing: An Inaterview with Salman Rushdie Works by Salman Rushdie Select Bibliography Contributors