Memory, History and Identitary Fictions in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children

  • Michaela PRAISLER Dunarea de Jos University of Galati, Romania
Keywords: fiction, magic realism, memory, self

Abstract

Rewriting the personal, national, religious, artistic and linguistic self of its character-cum-author, Saleem Sinai, Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children offers the reader a trip down memory lane, to a past which refuses to conform to fact, truth, logic or chronology. This past is moulded into numerous his-stories and cured of its factuality with the aid of the magic-realist processing grid. The whole novel is rich in extra-ordinary scenes and defamiliarising practices; selected here however, for illustrative and argumentative purposes, is the open ending which advances the intriguing image of history as a pantry shelf packed with jars of pickled memories.

Published
2025-05-05
How to Cite
PRAISLER, M. (2025). Memory, History and Identitary Fictions in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children. Comunicare Interculturală și Literatură / Communication Interculturelle Et Littérature, 19(2), 202-209. Retrieved from https://www.gup.ugal.ro/ugaljournals/index.php/cil/article/view/8332
Section
Literatură și identitate