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Issue Details:
First known date:
2011...
vol.
11
no.
6
June
2011
of
Language in India
est. 2001
Language in India
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Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children and Adiga’s The White Tiger as Social Critiques,
single work
criticism
(p. 102-117)'It is one of the trends of postmodernism to present facts that cannot be easily conceptualized, either because it is out of our experience or because of our tunnel vision. Postmodernism has been described as a period of mankind's deepest self-criticism. The novels of Rushdie, Midnight's Children in particular, along with Adiga's The White Tiger can be considered as enquiries that extend and embrace the world they live in. Rushdie has always maintained that it is the responsibility of the writer to tackle issues that sculpt our society, in an era of growing indifference...' (From author's introduction)
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