Salman Rushdie is one of the most notorious writers of Indian origin, now settled In England, and gained enough success after publication of his Midnight’s Children. “The Satanic Verses” this symbolic novel made the Muslim fundamentalists angry who then issued a fatwa stating death sentence to Rushdie. With a style of writing or technique that integrates supernatural or magical events to realistic narrative without questioning the uncertainty of events or circumstances. In the year 1993, he won Booker of Bookers prize for Midnight’s Children. As The Best of Bookers In 2008 it was selected. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how magical realism impacts literary work and also how in Midnight's Children it is applicable. The physical attributes are well acknowledged to abstract the inner - entities. In various events in the text, various elements and themes of magical realism has been used symbolically such as - themes of immigration, disintegration, dislocation and diversity.
Key words: post colonialism, magical realism, midnight children
|
