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    At Home but Not at Home

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    characteristics and situatedness‚ at most as a symbolic structure. A space by contrast is a changing field of tensions and contradictions‚ where the physical is imbricated and competes with social‚ political and cultural dimensions" (206). Following Salman Rushdie‚ the author says that‚ “it is useful to conceive of "home" as involving some degree of both location (at least an imaginary one) and relations-thus constituting a social and physical "space" as opposed to simply a "place"” (206). These definitions

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    In this tutorial I question the ideas of ‘language’ and ‘othering’‚ removing any preconceived notions from my mind‚ starting a fresh research and pondering process to form an opinion. I debate both sides of the coin‚ fully cognizant of the fact that it is more like a multi-faceted dice and that only two perceptions are not enough to discuss such an extensive issue. In Ghosh’s fiction‚ space is not merely remembered as an imaginative construct but is represented as a domain of political and cultural

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    Midnight's Children Essay

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    Midnight’s Children essay Salman Rushdie’s creation‚ Saleem Sinai‚ has a self-proclaimed "overpowering desire for form" (363). In writing his own autobiography Saleem seems to be after what Frank Kermode says every writer is a after: concordance. Concordance would allow Saleem to bring meaning to moments in the "middest" by elucidating (or creating) their coherence with moments in the past and future. While Kermode talks about providing this order primarily through an "imaginatively predicted

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    POST COLONIALISM

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    Post colonialism should be referred to as the legacies of colonialism and not the end of colonialism. British interests in Indian languages arose from the necessity to cultivate the medium of intercourse between the government and its subjects. Lord Macaulay minute on Education 1835 very clearly signifies his agenda that is the Dissemination of the English language and English culture. The Englishmen wanted a class of persons who can act as interpreters between them and their subjects. People

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    ’Govinda aala re’ (name govinda) 7.) "Roll up you sleeves" (phrase from my SOP) 8.) Household male 9.) Namesake(Random) 10.) One In Hand Two In Bush (Cos I got placement offers from 2 companies) 11.) Rouble (was on Russian project) 12.) Salman Rushdie (had questions about his books in the interview) 13.) Slumdog Millionaire 14.) The properties of sun 15.) To win a rat race you need to be a cat 16.) everyone cannot be a moon(my surname) 17.) Hope 18.) India United and india divided 19

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    ARAVIND ADIGA

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    Aravind Adiga is an Indian writer and journalist. His debut novel‚ The White Tiger‚ won the 2008 Man Booker Prize. He is the fourth Indian-born author to win the prize‚ after Salman Rushdie‚ Arundhati Roy and Kiran Desai. (V. S. Naipaul‚ another winner‚ is of Indian origin‚ but was not born in India.) He has written many short stories‚ essays‚ and published 3 books so far; namely‚ The White Tiger‚ Between the Assassinations‚ and Last Man in Tower. Be it essays or novels‚ the ‘Indian’ setting

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    Midnight's Children Thesis

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    Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie (A Study On Postcolonial Innovations) A Thesis Presented to the Department of Literature College of Nursing In Partial Fulfilment of the Requirement in Literature 101 World Literatures Tan‚ John Ryan N. March 2012 TABLE OF CONTENTS Dedication………………………………………………………………………………………..2 Acknowledgement………………………………………………………………………………3 CHAPTER 1 The Problem and its background A: Introduction………………………………………………………………………

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    as it surely is in the final thirty or so pages. When it drags‚ stylistic tics become annoyingly apparent‚ the narrative too slender to support even a novel this short‚ and this talented author’s indebtedness to other writers‚ from Narayan and Salman Rushdie to Italo Calvino‚ Jerzy Kosinski and Gabriel Garcia Marquez the sign not of postmodern play but of youthful

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    Midnight's Children

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    Rushdie uses many techniques in “Midnight’s Children” which involves magical reality‚ history and political issues. The oral narrative used by Saleem Sinai is the advanced technique‚ where he narrates his story of life to his beloved‚ called Padma. It is a story of two nations. Midnight’s Children is described as a national allegory. Neil ten Kortenaar argues that Saleem’s narrative is a narrative of India’s national Independence and it is for this reason that the story of Saleem Sinai in Midnight’s

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    ’Govinda aala re’ (name govinda) 7.) "Roll up you sleeves" (phrase from my SOP) 8.) Household male 9.) Namesake(Random) 10.) One In Hand Two In Bush (Cos I got placement offers from 2 companies) 11.) Rouble (was on Russian project) 12.) Salman Rushdie (had questions about his books in the interview) 13.) Slumdog Millionaire 14.) The properties of sun 15.) To win a rat race you need to be a cat 16.) everyone cannot be a moon(my surname) 17.) Hope 18.) India United and india divided 19

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