Postmodern Paradigm and Salman Rushdie’S Fiction

Download or read book Postmodern Paradigm and Salman Rushdie’S Fiction written by Dr Shaikh Suhel Samad and published by Partridge Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-02 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book highlights postmodern fiction and more so Rushdies fiction, which is concerned with: 1. A preoccupation with viability of systems and representations 2. The decentring of the subject and the inscription of multiple fictive selves 3. Narrative fragmentation, narrative reflexivity, and narratives which double-back on their own presuppositions 4. An open-ended play with formal divides challenging the presuppositions of literary realism 5. Abolition of the cultural divide between high and popular forms of culture, embracing all in a mlange 6. The displacement of the real by simulacra in Baudrillardian sense 7. Incredulity toward the metanarratives as Lyotard puts it