The condescending descendent : an attitude revealed through the historiographic metafiction of Salman Rushdie’s ‘midnight’s children’

• Main Author: John Johney, Darlene
• Other Authors: Bede Tregear Scott
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/63237
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In my essay, I argue that the project of preservation in Salman Rushdie's 'Midnight's Children' is undermined by the very process used to achieve these outcomes and in the process, reveals that their focus on history is a condescending façade to hide part of a path to preserve th...