From Elephant God to Man Dog: Hybridity, Mimicry, and the Homo Sacer in Salman Rushdie’s MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN
Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children is a work of pastiche. As such it is typically postmodern, literature patched together from other literary texts. Using Grass’s Tin Drum and the German postwar cultural-political situation as a model, Rushdie copies Grass in re-enchanting a secularized country grappling...
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Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca
2017-12-01
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| Series: | Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory |
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| Online Access: | http://www.metacriticjournal.com/article/81/from-elephant-god-to-man-dog-hybridity-mimicry-and-the-homo-sacer-in-salman-rushdies-midnights-children |