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Spring Board of Subversion: The Grotesque and Polyphonic Voices in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children

Author(s) Abhra Dutta
Country India
Abstract Midnight's Children, 'Bookers of Booker'prize winning novel of Salman Rushdie, unfolds lots of surprises before us.This novel allows us to mingle with it from a variety of angles, such as post-colonialism, historicism, Bakhtinian study and so on.The purpose of this paper is to highlight the application of Bakhtinian concept to Midnight's Children.His primary concern regarding the presence of different voices, the social backdrop of every voice and of course the reversal in status of each voice in a particular moment - more clearly it is the "self" and the "other" whose presence he wanted to find out in novels.Through Sinai's own narration, Rushdie very clearly and confidently includes the voices - all very strongly put their own statements.,own perceptions without being dominated by one another. This quality quality allows us to apply Bakhtin's concept of Dialogism and Polyphony to the text. Rushdie's novel celebrates the midnight - the midnight which brings the independence and the partition as well - that midnight which blessed the newly born babies of that night with magical powers and grotesque organs-that midnight which is no less than a festival for the two countries.And this quality of Rushdie's text brings forth the Carnivalesque element in the text. So, this paper is an attempt to re-read Rushdie's Midnight's Children from Bakhtinian point of view.
Keywords Dialogism, Polyphony, Carnivalesque, Protagonist, Grotesque
Field Arts
Published In Volume 6, Issue 4, July-August 2024
Published On 2024-07-28
Cite This Spring Board of Subversion: The Grotesque and Polyphonic Voices in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children - Abhra Dutta - IJFMR Volume 6, Issue 4, July-August 2024. DOI 10.36948/ijfmr.2024.v06i04.25364
DOI https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2024.v06i04.25364
Short DOI https://doi.org/gt5hgw
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