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Midnight’s Children : Narrative Techniques

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This document summarizes narrative techniques used in Salman Rushdie's novel Midnight's Children, including apocalyptic narrative, point of view, cinematic techniques, magic realism, language, and time lapses. It discusses how the novel blends reality and fantasy, uses first person narration that also claims to be omniscient, and switches between past, present and future through flashbacks and changing tenses. The narrative moves the reader through time, place and action.

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Midnight’s Children : Narrative Techniques Nanditaba Chudasama Semester : 3 Enrollment no : 3069206420200006 Roll no : 12 Batch : 2020- 2022 S.B Gardi Department of English Bhavnagar University
Apocalyptic Narrative • What is Apocalyptic Narrative? • Apocalyptic Narrative is one of the aspects in the narrative techniques as found in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children. • Apocalyptic Narrative and idea of Nationalism. • “Abracadabra” Possess lots of apocalyptic connotations.
Point of view as found in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children •Moving in course of time,place and action. •First person narrative. •Claims omniscient narrative. •Frank kermode : concordance. •Coherence with moments in the past and future.
Cinematic Technique • Beginning of the novel • Reflection of post colonial culture of India • Language of Saleem’s narrative • Melodramatic • Switching of Saleem snd Shiva by Mary Pereira
Magic Realism is : • The blend of reality and fantacy so that the distinction between the two is erased. • Transformation of the common and every day into the awesome and unreal • Elements of dreams,fairy tales,or mythology combined with everyday. • The frame or surface of the work may be conventionally realistic. • Have a strong narrative drive.
Language • “Language” in a narrative form. • Structure of a language. • Indian contextual words. • Interesting words like God knows what, what its name. • Use of allusions • English language with in “appropriation.”
Time Lapses as found in midnight’s Children • Switching from present to past and from past to future. • Including flashbacks, mixture of tenses and others. • Disturb the flow of the narrator and saleem the character. • Example : Thirty two years before as present.(ch-1) • Grandfather Adam Aziz’s existence lies along with his contemporaries, from present to past.(ch-2) • Narrator makes us move by taking us in course of time,place and action.
Citations Rushdie, Salman. Midnight's Children. New York :Modern Library, 2003. Rushdie, Salman. Midnight's Children. Toronto: Vintage Canada, 1997. Print.
Midnight’s Children : Narrative Techniques

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Midnight’s Children : Narrative Techniques

  • 1. Midnight’s Children : Narrative Techniques Nanditaba Chudasama Semester : 3 Enrollment no : 3069206420200006 Roll no : 12 Batch : 2020- 2022 S.B Gardi Department of English Bhavnagar University
  • 2. Apocalyptic Narrative • What is Apocalyptic Narrative? • Apocalyptic Narrative is one of the aspects in the narrative techniques as found in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children. • Apocalyptic Narrative and idea of Nationalism. • “Abracadabra” Possess lots of apocalyptic connotations.
  • 3. Point of view as found in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children •Moving in course of time,place and action. •First person narrative. •Claims omniscient narrative. •Frank kermode : concordance. •Coherence with moments in the past and future.
  • 4. Cinematic Technique • Beginning of the novel • Reflection of post colonial culture of India • Language of Saleem’s narrative • Melodramatic • Switching of Saleem snd Shiva by Mary Pereira
  • 5. Magic Realism is : • The blend of reality and fantacy so that the distinction between the two is erased. • Transformation of the common and every day into the awesome and unreal • Elements of dreams,fairy tales,or mythology combined with everyday. • The frame or surface of the work may be conventionally realistic. • Have a strong narrative drive.
  • 6. Language • “Language” in a narrative form. • Structure of a language. • Indian contextual words. • Interesting words like God knows what, what its name. • Use of allusions • English language with in “appropriation.”
  • 7. Time Lapses as found in midnight’s Children • Switching from present to past and from past to future. • Including flashbacks, mixture of tenses and others. • Disturb the flow of the narrator and saleem the character. • Example : Thirty two years before as present.(ch-1) • Grandfather Adam Aziz’s existence lies along with his contemporaries, from present to past.(ch-2) • Narrator makes us move by taking us in course of time,place and action.
  • 8. Citations Rushdie, Salman. Midnight's Children. New York :Modern Library, 2003. Rushdie, Salman. Midnight's Children. Toronto: Vintage Canada, 1997. Print.