Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism

Masks of conquest: Literary study and British rule in India

Wallace Stevens: The Poems of Our Climate

Politics of the possible.

tW ~ s hen a tussock of earth strikes the prayerful Aadam Aziz at the beginning of Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children (1980), the doctor's nose releases not only three drops of blood but also a stream of

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The Migrant Intellectual and the Body of History: Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children

Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children has been widely seen as typifying both postmodernism and postcoloniality. As such, it has been taken to represent a new, \"de-totalizing\" way of writing history, specifically, the history of India as a modern nation-state. The novel figures prominently, for instance, in Linda Hutcheon's The Politics of Postmodernism, where it exemplifies a structure that both installs and subverts \"the teleology, closure, and causality of narrative, both historical and fictive\" (63). Rushdie's postmodern techniques of narration, in this view, express a self-reflexive and wary detachment from all totalizing modes of historical thought. For Hutcheon, the combination of a contemporary self-reflexivity plus the relativizing juxtaposition of \"Eastern\" and \"Western\" modes of thought seems to sum up Midnight's Children. Rushdie's novel \"works to foreground the totalizing impulse of westernÂ—imperialisticÂ—modes of history-

Clement Hawes

Papers

Leading History by the Nose: The Turn to the Eighteenth Century in Midnight's Children