Thinking activity on Midnight children

 Midnight's Children is a 1981 novel by author Salman Rushdie. It portrays India's transition from British colonial rule to independence and the partition of India. It is considered an example of postcolonial, postmodern, and magical realist literature. The story is told by its chief protagonist, Saleem Sinai, and is set in the context of actual historical events. The style of preserving history with fictional accounts is self-reflexive.

Midnight's Children won both the Booker Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1981. It was awarded the "Booker of Bookers" Prize and the best all-time prize winners in 1993 and 2008 to celebrate the Booker Prize 25th and 40th anniversary.

Study material

1) Postcolonial aspect  

2) Magical realism 

3) Unreliable narration and Memory 

4) Metafiction as technique

5)  History as a fictional narration 

Answer the questions.

1) Identify postcolonial aspect in"Midnight children ".

2) What is magical realism ? Explain it with the special reference of Midnight children.

3)  " Midnight  children as a unreliable narrative ." ? Explain in detail. And also show the  role of memory . Memory and narration is going to effect each other that also find out ?

4) Explain in detail about " Metafiction as technique ".  And Do you find this technique is used in ' Midnight children ' ?

5) Do you find any historical element in midnight children. And how it represents in that work. 

Reference

1) 

https://www.academia.edu/30975277/History_as_Fiction_and_Fiction_as_History_in_Rushdie_s_Midnights_Children_.

2)

https://www.academia.edu/45677757/ANALYSING_THE_POST_COLONIAL_ASPECTS_OF_MIDNIGHTS_CHILDREN_BY_SALMAN_RUSHDIE_Sanjana_Parisaboina

3)

https://www.academia.edu/37668579/Magic_Realism_in_Salman_Rushdies_Midnights_Children

4)

https://www.academia.edu/5164492/UNRELIABLE_NARRATION_AND_THE_ROLE_OF_MEMORY_IN_MIDNIGHT_S_CHILDREN

5)

https://www.academia.edu/4994583/SALMAN_RUSHDIES_MIDNIGHTS_CHILDREN_AS_A_HISTORIOGRAPHIC_METAFICTION