Chutnifying history : An insight into the Indian emergency of 1975 through postmodern fiction.
This paper, through Salman Rushdie's 'Midnight's Children' and Rohinton Mistry's 'A Fine Balance', will analyse how the Indian Emergency of 1975 is seen through the eyes of postmodern writers. Through this analysis, the paper will argue that Rushdie and Mistry &quo...
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| Format: | Final Year Project |
| Language: | English |
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2010
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10356/38805 |
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| Institution: | Nanyang Technological University |
| Language: | English |
| Summary: | This paper, through Salman Rushdie's 'Midnight's Children' and Rohinton Mistry's 'A Fine Balance', will analyse how the Indian Emergency of 1975 is seen through the eyes of postmodern writers. Through this analysis, the paper will argue that Rushdie and Mistry "chutnify" history in order to give a voice to the losers of history and the subaltern - indirectly providing the reader with an alternative version of the Indian Emergency |
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