Systems and accidents in 20th century magical realist literature: Salman Rushdie's "Midnight's Children" and Sadegh Hedayat's "The blind owl" as critiques of modern nation-making experiments

Systems and accidents in 20th century magical realist literature: Salman Rushdie's "Midnight's Children" and Sadegh Hedayat's "The blind owl" as critiques of modern nation-making experiments

This article compares two major 20th century magical realist novels - Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children and Sadegh Hedayat’s The Blind Owl – as critiques of modern nation-making practices, in Nehruvian post-independence India and Iran under Reza Shah Pahlavi. The analysis centers the interplay of...

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Main Author: Tadd Graham Fernée
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: New Bulgarian University 2015-12-01
Series:English Studies at NBU
Subjects:
Magical Realism
modernity
Salman Rushdie
Sadegh Hedayat
India
Iran
nation-making
postmodernism
Online Access:http://esnbu.org/data/files/2015/2015-2-4-fernee-pp55-70.pdf

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