Historicity in Salman Rushdie’s Midnights children
Keywords:
New Historicism, Midnights ChildrenAbstract
Salman Rushdie established himself as a representative writer of postcolonial literature with his second novel, Midnights Children, the best Booker Prize winner of all time. As with historical fiction, the work is set in the background of genuine historical events. The novel is generally interpreted via the lens of postcolonialism or postmodernism by most critics. Meanwhile, New Historicism offers a fresh perspective on this fabrication. As a result, the purpose of this article is to use the philosophy of New Historicism to show the relationship between national history and personal experience in Midnights Children, which will be done in two sections. The first section examines the book's Historicity, while the second section looks at the book's Textuality of History.
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