Born on 19 June 1947, two months before India, the country of his birth, achieved her independence from British Rule, Salman Rushdie is, and yet is not quite, one of India’s Midnight’s Children. The newly installed Indian Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, gave voice to the historical moment when he evoked the “tryst India had made with destiny” which would be “redeem[ed] [….] At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps”, allowing India to “awake to life and freedom”. Anglophone Indian Literature had to wait another thirty-four years for a writer such as Salman Rushdie to write Midnight’s Children (1981), a novel with which Rushdie was to make his …

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Ghosh-Schellhorn, Martina, Catherine Pesso-Miquel. "Salman Rushdie". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 16 May 2003; last revised 06 April 2017.
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Articles on Rushdie's works

1. East, West
2. Fury
3. Haroun and the Sea of Stories
4. Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism, 1981-1991
5. Joseph Anton
6. Midnight's Children
7. Shalimar The Clown
8. Shame
9. The Enchantress of Florence
10. The Ground Beneath Her Feet
11. The Jaguar Smile
12. The Moor's Last Sigh
13. The Satanic Verses
14. The Wizard of Oz
15. Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights

Related Groups

1. Indian Prose Fiction in English
2. Magical Realism in Literature
3. Postcolonial literature - Britain, The Caribbean, Australia, New Zealand
4. Metafictional Writing

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