In this tutorial I question the ideas of ‘language’ and ‘othering’‚ removing any preconceived notions from my mind‚ starting a fresh research and pondering process to form an opinion. I debate both sides of the coin‚ fully cognizant of the fact that it is more like a multi-faceted dice and that only two perceptions are not enough to discuss such an extensive issue. In Ghosh’s fiction‚ space is not merely remembered as an imaginative construct but is represented as a domain of political and cultural
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Salman Rushdie’s novel Midnight’s Children employs strategies which engage in an exploration of History‚ Nationalism and Hybridity. This essay will examine three passages from the novel which demonstrate these issues. Furthermore‚ it will explore why each passage is a good demonstration of these issues‚ how these issues apply to India in the novel‚ and how the novel critiques these concepts. The passage from pages 37-38 effectively demonstrates the concept of history‚ as it foregrounds elements
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Masaryk University Faculty of Arts Department of English and American Studies English Language and Literature Dita Polcarová Historical and Political Issues of India as Reflected in Rushdie`s Midnight`s Children Bachelor’s Diploma Thesis Supervisor: PhDr. Lidia Kyzlinková‚ CSc.‚ M.Litt. 2008 Declaration: I declare that I have worked on this thesis independently‚ using only the primary and secondary sources listed in the bibliography. …………………………………………….. Dita Polcarová
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University of Tennessee‚ Knoxville Trace: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange Doctoral Dissertations Graduate School 12-2009 Critical Distance: The Postcolonial Novel and the Dilemma of Exile David S. Morgan University of Tennessee - Knoxville Recommended Citation Morgan‚ David S.‚ "Critical Distance: The Postcolonial Novel and the Dilemma of Exile. " PhD diss.‚ University of Tennessee‚ 2009. http://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss/624 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open
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space by contrast is a changing field of tensions and contradictions‚ where the physical is imbricated and competes with social‚ political and cultural dimensions" (206). Following Salman Rushdie‚ the author says that‚ “it is useful to conceive of "home" as involving some degree of both location (at least an imaginary one) and relations-thus constituting a social and physical "space" as opposed to simply a "place"” (206). These definitions lead to the question of how physical and social conceptions
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lack of civility‚ and human spirit. Salman Rushdie quotes‚ “Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and the human spirit.” Salman Rushdie’s quote and the books that have been mentioned above share the idea that we can explore and learn from these fictional or nonfictional situational environments. Both of these books teach and portray the cruel parts of human society and also relates to the quote from Salman Rushdie. Angela’s Ashes takes place in Limerick
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against the U.S. at the International Court of Justice in 1986 (see Nicaragua v. United States)‚ and the U.S. was ordered to pay Nicaragua some $12 billion in reparations for undermining the nation’s sovereignty. It was during this period that Salman Rushdie visited Nicaragua at the occasion of the seventh anniversary of the Sandinistas rise to power.ter a period of political and economic turmoil under dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle‚ the leftist Sandinista National Liberation Front (commonly known
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different generations but also vivid ideologies affecting the lives of middle class family and especially the life of Gogol. Jhumpa Lahiri tries her best to portray the lifestyle of a very simple Bengali Family residing in abroad away from their homeland India in a simple yet elegant way. The main purpose of writing this research paper is to reveal the interstitial intricacies developed in the lives of born Indians and born American-Bengali child. The Namesake gives a clear review of the diaspora
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The writers Nadine Gordimer and Salman Rushdie both use allegory in their works. Nadine Gordimer wrote the short story‚ “Once Upon a Time”‚ which talks about segregation in South Africa. Salman Rushdie wrote the novel‚ Haroun and the Sea of Stories. Both “Once Upon a Time” by Nadine Gordimer‚ and Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie‚ use allegory to prove the danger of a governing body separating its citizens. In “Once Upon a Time”‚ Nadine Gordimer conveys that separating people
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The Versatility of Stories Through Haroun Khalifa’s adventure on the story moon of Kahani‚ Salman Rushdie discloses to readers the value of stories that are not even true. In Rushdie’s Haroun and the Sea of Stories‚ the author illustrates how powerful and versatile fictional stories are to real life. From the colorful Ocean of the Streams of Stories to the conflicting Lands of Gup and Chup‚ Rushdie creates a world within the novel that undoubtedly and continually portrays the point of made-up tales
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