Salman Rushdie Essay Examples

The key plan of South Asian Literature in English is to write back in the language of the ex-colonizers from a (dis)comfort zone of a decolonized area. It makes us rethink the idea of the word `exotic` in an investigation of returning to the Postcolonial...

Salmon Rushdie’s Booker prize winning novel, Midnight’s Children (1981), is a story of a post-colonial India struggling to reconcile with its fragmented cultural and national identity, a story told allegorically through the life of Saleem Sinai. Rushdie’s unique language and the allegories of Saleem and...

Haroun and the Ssea of Sstories is a fantasy novel written by Salman Rushdie, an Indian writer known for his many short stories and novels. Although Haroun closely relates to a children’s book, it has a far deeper meaning despite the childish story line and...

Reading a literary work causes an experience. However, this experience differs between two readers of the same literary work. The novel Haroun and the sea of stories by Salman Rushdie proves this point perfectly. The novel is about Haroun, who goes on a quest to...

According to Salman Rushdie “Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale of the imagination and of the heart. Literature...