Salman Rushdie

Time’, ‘space’, ‘place’ are some of the frequently used (sometimes misused) terms in literature, and they have been defined in different ways and from various theoretical perspectives. In the colonial discourse, in particular, the concept ‘place’ was closely related to knowledge and power in so far as the process of mapping the ‘other spaces ‘ was deployed to reproduce dominant world view. While the tenants of imperialism are teleological, its practices have always been geographic. As Edward…

Using plethoras of vivid imagery, Denise Levertov’s “Clouds” describes the almost numb feelings the speaker feels as a result of the loss of a loved one. Levertov uses descriptors that are very strong. She uses words like “rising” (Line 1), “mounting” (Line 3), and “surging” (Line 4). These words all fall within the first half of the poem and portray a very clear image with powerful words Levertov also uses distinct adjectives that are not commonly worked into the average person's’ vernacular,…

phrases all describe the same questions about reality or beauty of the world; it’s just in different forms. The power of literature is that it can fill in the gap between time periods since all people have a similar understanding of the world. Salman Rushdie explains, “It is literature which for me opened the mysterious and decisive doors of imagination and understanding. To see the way others see. To think the way others think. And,…

As expressed by Salman Rushdie, “Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination, and of the heart.” For centuries, science and philosophy have grappled with the great mystery of our inner lives; literature, however, has defeated this, with its capacity to provide one of the most accurate records of human consciousness. In acknowledgement of the…

transgression, foreshadowing the country’s Civil War to come. Okri uses ironic distance in this novel as well. Like other magical realist authors such as Isabel Allende, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Allejo Carpentier, Syl Cheney-Coker, Kojo Laing, Mario Vargas Llosa, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Toni Morrison, Ben Okri has his own idea that overwhelms the possibility of rejuvenation in magical realism. Magical realism as a journey of soul searching plays its vital role. Ben Okri along with other…

the parental land. In contemporary modern era, immigration , exile and expatriation are related to home, identity , nostalgia, memory and isolation. These are mainly the recurrent themes in the diasporic writings of writers like V. S Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, Jhumpa Lahiri, Kiran Desai and many other…

of Cancer” Christopher Hitchens learns that very lesson. Christopher Hitchens was a man who was on top of world. He was scheduled to interview with Jon Stewart on the The Daily Show, he also had was scheduled to appear on a sold-out show with Salman Rushdie. Christopher Hitchens was a man who had so many things going for him and then one day he woke up feeling like death. Christopher Hitchens went to the doctor one morning feeling like death. He unfortunately…

Culture is relative to each individual’s experience. Although each culture has its’ similarities, our personalities and attitudes are largely shaped by our personal cultural and social interactions. This is why traveling to a new place can give us a so called “culture shock,” or even make us question our own values. Luckily, I’ve been blessed with the opportunity to grow up with two distinct cultures and ways of thinking in my life. This blending of cultures has allowed me to have a variety of…

After undergoing, a painful seven years of apprenticeship, living in Brookyln, she often visited her mother Anita Desai in New York or travelled with her. Her debut novel Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard is no less ingenious in its treatment of identity and subjectivity. It is based on myth-making and mythical systems. Kiran Desai's literary creations are endowed with multicultural themes in which hopes and aspirations of both men and women in a globalised society are presented to…

The immigrant narrative is the central story of the American experience; one whose norms define the variations in American cultural and literary landscape. While no single text tells the whole story of immigration, the larger narrative is always implicit. Examples with variations are provided by any ethnic group whose people write about moving and adapting to America. These migrant stories are narrated in journalism, cinema and fiction in the tradition strategically sentimentalized middle-brow…