Self, Nation, Text in Salman Rushdie's &quote;Midnight's Children&quote;

Many non-Indian readers find the historical and cultural references in Salman Rushdie''s Midnight''s Children demanding. In his close reading of the novel, Neil ten Kortenaar offers post-colonial literary strategies for understanding Midnight''s Children that also challenge some of the prevailing interpretations of the novel. Using hybridity, mimicry, national allegory, and cosmopolitanism, all ke...