Postcolonial Lack and Aesthetic Promise in Salman Rushdie’s <i>The Moor’s Last Sigh</i>
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Alexandra W. Schultheis Moore, Associate Professor (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
Abstract: In his documentary film The Riddle of Midnight, Salman Rushdie returns to India 40 years after independence to see if a definable national identity exists. He interviews Indians of different backgrounds and economic statuses, and a crowd confronts him and asks "How can a country that never previously existed become independent? What does it mean to call this crowd of separate national histories, conflicting cultures, and warring faiths, a nation?" Rushdie, is narrator and national spokesman, answers unsatisfactorily, “It's by the lack of definition that you know it's you.”
Postcolonial Lack and Aesthetic Promise in Salman Rushdie’s <i>The Moor’s Last Sigh</i>
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Twentieth Century Literature 47.4 (Winter): 569-595.
- Language: English
- Date: 2001
- Keywords
- India, Salman Rushdie, Literary analysis, National identity, Family