(2008) is Salman Rushdie’s tenth novel and his eighth fictional work to be partly or wholly set – explicitly – in the Indian subcontinent. In this sense, it fits into what Martina Ghosh-Schellhorn describes as the “post-
Midnight” (post-
Midnight’s Children) portion of the Rushdie corpus, in which can be included
Shame(1983);
The Satanic Verses(1988);
East, West(1994);
The Moor’s Last Sigh(1995);
The Ground Beneath Her Feet(1999); and
Shalimar the Clown(2005). This grouping defines Rushdie’s creative engagement with national and cultural identity in the Indian subcontinent and, reflecting his sense of an “Indian talent for non-stop self-regeneration” (“Imaginary Homelands”, p.16), an exuberant magical realist aesthetic favouring…
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