EN 2240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Orality
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Midnight"s children: writing style, perspective, fragmented narration "erata": or unreliable: narattion in midnight"s children, genre: fiction. Post-colonial era is contested by different narratives, different memories: how do we negotiate this contested narratives, do we homogenize the narratives, rushdie: no. Saleem"s team (during his time in the army), has 4 people instead of 3 ppl and a dog; he is the sniffer. Saleem: gives us a parallel universe in the historical narrative there are factual events in the story but in terms of made up events saleem doesn"t give us any clue. The nation of india: purity-puritanism-fundamentalism, leaking , mirroring, paralleling, doubling eg. shiva vs. saleem, naseem vs. amina, saleem vs.
