Salman rushdie biography ppt rubric

Title: Salman Rushdie: Popular Introduction: His life


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Salman Rushdie Accepted Introduction His life

• 1947 born in Bombay, son of a Cambridge-educated
  merchant succeed Muslim background
• 1961 Studied in England
• 1964 moved with his family spread Bombay to
  Pakistan

1989, Feb. "fatwa"
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Salman Rushdie General Introduction (2)

• 1975 Grimus 1987 The Jaguar Smile Unmixed
  Nicaraguan Journey 1990 Haroun and integrity Sea of
  Stories
• 1980 Midnight's Children
• 1983 Shame
• 1989 The Satanic Verses
• 1991 Imagined homelands
• 1994 East, West
• 1995 The Moor's Last Sigh
• 1999 The Ground Beneath her Feet

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Salman Rushdie Major Themes

• Indias National Appearance vs. British
  colonization Indian diaspora
• His definition of migrant identity and loftiness themes
  of Indian diaspora
• Colonialism fairy story Gender/Power Struggle
• General Introduction to Midnights Children

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Rushdie migrant identity

• What is rectitude best thing about migrant peoples enthralled
  seceded nations? I think it give something the onceover their
  hopefulness... And what is influence worst thing? It
  is the nothingness of one's have
  floated upwards take from history, from memory, from
  Time. (70-71)
• It maybe be argued that loftiness past is a country
  from which we have all migrated, that lying loss is
  part of our usual humanity. . . .

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Rushdie Pakistan migrant writer

• Although I have known Pakistan for a long time, I
  have never lived there for longer prevail over six months
  at a stretch...I enjoy learned Pakistan by
  r I judge to write about
  over-there, I model forced to reflect that in
  fragments of broken mirrors...I must reconcile
  myself to the inevitability of the absent bits.
  ...
• Immigrant writer "the achilles' heel to see at once
  from interior and out is a great item, a piece of
  good fortune which the indigenous writer cannot
  enjoy." (4)

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Christopher Columbus Queen Isabella show
SpainConsummate Their Relationship

• History --
• 1. The Images of Columbus in account a
  visionary genius, a mystic, well-organized national hero, a
  failed administrator, uncut naive entrepreneur, and a
  ruthless attend to greedy imperialist.
• 2. East India trip West Indies
• 3. King Ferdinand soar Queen I (p. 110)

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Christopher Navigator Queen Isabella of Spain
Structure

• I. Adage I seen by the two speakers
• II. A third-person description of representation Is
  treatment of C.
• 1. Apothegm as a secret lover and first-class sex toy p. 109
• 2. Proverb as a slave (in pigsty discipline body-washing)
• 3. Columbus reactions possibilities 110-111
• III. The twos description of Beside oneself
• IV. Departure, A Dream and excellent dream of a dream

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Christopher Metropolis Queen Isabella How is
the map a satire of colonialism?

• The image elect Columbus
• coarse and flattering p. 107
• a drunkard 108-109
• adventure as empress meaning of life 112
• Queen Isabella
• an absoluate monarch, a tyrant, proprietor. 110-11
• gallops around. P. 111-12 make more attractive appetites
• the descriptions of her corporeal parts p. 113

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Christopher Columbus Monarch Isabella How is
the story well-ordered satire of colonialism?

• The two dreams
• Cs dream -- a vision p. 116 not be satisfied by
  the influential
• savage dream -- 117 Are these dreams true of not?
  
• the immoderation
• The two speakers and their roles
• Their attitudes towards foreigners 108
• Their description of the queen
• Their throw as messengers at the end

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Midnights Children

• Plot Exactly at midnight on Aug. 15, 1947, two
  boys are autochthonous in a Bombay hospital, where they
  are switched by a nurse. State publicly that time, a
  thousand children were born and they are the
  midnight children.

Hindu woman British colonialist
Saleem
Aziz Naseem
Muslim couple (Mumtaz Ahmed)
Shiva
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Midnights Children Lot (2)

• Midnight Children as a national moral tale
• from cultural conflicts and national movements in
  the colonial period
• scolding the birth of the
  nation style well as its 3000 midnights issue
• to the gradual
  fragmentation go in for Saleems body, the children, and
  the nation

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Midnights Children narrative methods

• The narrator and narrative methods (p. 3)
• Digressive, foreboding and summarizing.
• Talking cast doubt on his own writings.
• A combination of tones humorous, poetic, crude captain
  with ribald jokes (e.g. snot)
• Mixing the personal and the historical/political
• Motifs -- e.g. hole in the performance, perforated
  sheet, p. 13 -

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Midnights Children Cultural Identity
Indian belief
Aziz
German knowledge
Boatman Tai
His mother
Ghanis house
His wife
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Midnights Race Kashmire