A Post Colonial Study On Narration Of Nation In Salman Rushdie’s Novels

Abstract

Salman Rushdie is one of the most renowned Indian writers who has through his literary works made noteworthy contributions about the Indian nation. Salman Rushdie even though being an Anglo Indian writer, through his novels has brought into light to the readers, several unknown issues that his motherland India encounters through his extremely creative writing style. This paper will investigate in detail about the narration of nation, magic realism and post colonialism with specific reference to the fictional works of Salman Rushdie. Among numerous fictional works of Salman Rushdie three specific novels namely, Midnight’s Children, Shame and Shalimar the Clown have been taken into consideration in this paper.