The New Literatures in English: Some Representative Texts


General 1: New Literatures in English

General 2: Post-Colonial Theory

David Malouf's Remebering Babylon

Ben Okri's The Famished Road

Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children


General 1: New Literatures in English


Bennett, Bruce and Dennis Haskell, eds. Myths, Heroes and Anti-Heroes: Essays on the Literature and Culture of the Asia-Pacific Region. Nedlands: Centre for Studies in Aus. Lit., 1992.

Mengham, Rod, ed. An Introduction to Contemporary Fiction: International Writing in English since 1970. Cambridge: Polity, 1999.


General 2: Post-Colonial Theory


Adam, Ian and Helen Tiffin, eds. Past the Last Post: Theorizing Post-Colonialism and Post-Modernism. Calgary : U of Calgary P, 1990.

Anderson, Benedict.  Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spreadof Nationalism.  London: Verso, 1983.

Antor, Heinz and Kevin L. Cope, eds. Intercultural Encounters: Studies in English Literatures. Essays Presented to Rudiger Ahrens on the Occasion of His Sixtieth Birthday. Anglistische Forschungen 265. Heidelberg: Winter, 1999.

Ashcroft, B., G. Griffiths and H. Tiffin. The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures.  London: Routledge, 1989.

-----, eds. The Post-Colonial Studies Reader.  London: Routledge, 1995.

Bhabha, Homi K., ed.  Nation and Narration.  London: Routledge, 1990.

-----.  The Location of Culture.  London: Routledge, 1994.

Brennan, Tim. "Rushdie, Islam, and Postcolonial Criticism." Social Text 10.2-3 (1992): 271-75.

Fanon, Frantz.  The Wretched of the Earth.  Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1961.

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr, ed.  'Race', Writing and Difference.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1985.

Griffiths, Tom.  "Ecology and Empire: Towards an Australian History of the World."  Australian Humanities Review (1997).  18.02.2000. <http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/AHR/archive/Issue-August-1997/griffiths3.html>.

Ngugi wa Thiomg'o.  Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature.  Nairobi: Heinemann, 1986.

Said, Edward.  Orientalism.  New York: Pantheon, 1978.

-----.  The World, the Text and the Critic.  Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1983.

-----.  Culture and Imperialism.  London: Chatto & Windus, 1993.

Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty.  In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics.  London: Routledge, 1987.

----- and Ranajit Guha, eds.  Selected Subaltern Studies.  Delhi: OUP, 1988.

-----.  Outside in the Teaching Machine.  London: Routledge, 1994.

Trivedi, Harish and Meenakshi Mukherjee eds. Interrogating Post-Colonialism: Theory, Text and Context. Rashtrapati Nivas: Indian Institute of Advanced Study, 1996.

Walder, Dennis, ed.  Literature in the Modern World.  Oxford: OUP, 1990.

Younis, Raymond Aaron. "Apropos the Last 'Post-': Contemporary Literature, Theory, and Interpretation." Literature and Theology 10.3 (1996): 280-89.

Zach, Wolfgang and Ken. L. Goodwin, eds. Nationalism vs. Internationalism: (Inter)National Dimensions of Literatures in English. Studies in English and Comparative Literature 1. Tübingen: Stauffenburg, 1996.

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David Malouf's Remebering Babylon


Antor, Heinz. "David Malouf's Johnno (1975): A Study of Post-Colonial Self-Constitution in Modern Australia." Intercultural Encounters: Studies in English Literatures. Essays Presented to Rudiger Ahrens on the Occasion of His Sixtieth Birthday. Ed. Heinz Antor and Kevin L. Cope. Anglistische Forschungen 265. Heidelberg: Winter, 1999. 509-31.

Ashcroft, Bill. "The Return of the Native: An Imaginary Life and Remembering Babylon." Commonwealth Essays and Studies 16.2 (1993): 51-60.

Bindella, Maria Teresa. "Crossing Boundaries in David Malouf's Antipodes." Quaderni di Lingue e Letterature 19 (1994): 109-23.

Brady, Veronica. "Redefining Frontiers - 'Race,' Colonizers and the Colonized." Antipodes 8.2 (1994): 93-100.

-----. "Malouf's An Imaginary Life." The Commonwealth-Review 2.1 (1990-91): 212-35.

Colakis,-Marianthe. "David Malouf's and Derek Mahon's Visions of Ovid in Exile." Classical and Modern Literature 13.3 (1993): 229-39.

Dale, Leigh and Helen Gilbert. "Edges of the Self: Topographies of the Body in the Writing of David Malouf." Provisional Maps: Critical Essays on David Malouf. Ed. Amanda Nettelbeck. Nedlands: Centre for Studies in Australian Literature, 1994. 85-100.

Daniel, Helen.  "Interview with David Malouf."  Australian Humanities Review (1996). 18.02.2000. <http://www.lamp.ac.uk/ahr/archive/Issue-Sept-1996/intermal.html>.

Delrez,-Marc. "Never Mind Minorities: David Malouf, The Cringe, and the Binge." Interpreting Minority: A Comparative Approach. Ed. Geert Lernout and Marc Maufort. Antwerp: Vlaamse Vereniging voor Algemene en Vergelijkende Literatuurwetenschap, 1998. 96-110.

Delrez, Marc and Paulette Michel-Michot. "The Politics of Metamorphosis: Cultural Transformation in David Malouf's Remembering Babylon." The Contact and the Culmination. Ed. Marc Delrez et al. Liege: L3-Liege Language and Literature, 1997. 155-70.

Doty, Kathleen and Risto Hiltunen. "The Power of Communicating Without Words - David Malouf's An Imaginary Life and Remembering Babylon." Antipodes 10.2 (1996): 99-105.

Egerer, Claudia. Fictions of (In)Betweenness. Gothenburg Studies in English 68. Goteborg: Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 1997.

-----. "The Homefulness of Exile in David Malouf's Remembering Babylon." AUETSA 96, I-II: Southern African Studies. Proc. of the Conf. of the Assn. of University English Teachers of South Africa, University of the Western Cape, 30 June-5 July 1996. Ed. Hermann Wittenberg and Loes Nas. 2 vols. Bellville, South Africa: U of Western Cape P, 1996. 2: 48-53.

English, David. "Malouf's Long Poem." Overland 132 (1993): 21-22.

Fouache, Cécile.  David Malouf's Prose Works : A Bibliography.  18.02.2000.  <http://www.liane.net/arobase/v1_n1/malou.html>.

Giffuni, Cathe. "The Prose of David Malouf: A Bibliography." Australian and New Zealand Studies in Canada 7 (1992): 53-62.

Gilbert, Helen. "The Boomerang Effect: Canonical Counter-Discourse and David Malouf's Blood Relations as an Oppositional Reworking of The Tempest." World Literature Written in English 31.2 (1991): 50-64.

Griffiths, Gareth. "An Imaginary Life: The Post-Colonial Text as Transformative Representation." Commonwealth Essays and Studies 16.2 (1993): 61-69.

-----. "Being There; Being There: Kosinski and Malouf." Past the Last Post: Theorizing Post-Colonialism and Post-Modernism. Ed. Ian Adam and Helen Tiffin. Calgary : U of Calgary P, 1990. 153-66.

Halliwell, Michael. "'The Space Between': Postcolonial Opera? - The Meale/Malouf Adaptation of Voss." Australasian Drama Studies 28 (1996): 87-98.

Hansson, Karin. Sheer Edge: Aspects of Identity in David Malouf's Writing. Lund Studies in English 83. Lund: Lund UP, 1991.

Hergenhan, Laurie. "The 'I' of the Beholder: Representations of Tuscany in Some Recent Australian Literature." Westerly 36.4 (1991): 107-14.

Kerr, David. "Uniting the Hemispheres: David Malouf's Fiction." Australian Literature Today. Ed. R.K. Dhawan and David Kerr. New Delhi: Indian Soc. for Commonw. Studies, 1993. 61-73.

Knox-Shaw, Peter. "An Art of Intersection: David Malouf's Kunstlerroman, Harland's Half Acre." Antipodes 5.1 (1991): 31-39.

-----. "Malouf's Epic and the Unravelling of a National Stereotype." The Journal of Commonwealth Literature 26.1 (1991): 79-100.

Laigle, Genevieve. "'Entering the Dimensions of My Self': Malouf's An Imaginary Life." Commonwealth Essays and Studies 16.2 (1993): 70-78.

-----. "Approaching Prayer, Knowledge, One Another: David Malouf's Remember Babylon." Commonwealth Essays and Studies 18.1 (1995): 78-91.

Lindsay, Elaine and Murray. "'Whether This Is Jerusalem or Babylon We Know Not': National Self-Discovery in Remembering Babylon." Southerly 57.4 (1997-98): 94-102.

McCredden, Lyn. "Craft and Politics: Remembering Babylon's Postcolonial Responses." Southerly 59.2 (1999): 5-16.

Morgan, Patrick. "Tales of Old Travel: Predecessors of David Malouf's The Conversations At Curlow Creek." Australian Literary Studies 18.2 (1997): 174-79.

Naumann,-Barbara. "Topos-Romane oder: Entgrenzung von Zeit und Raum bei Gross, Ransmayr und Malouf." Arcadia 27.1 (1992): 95-105.

Nettelbeck, Amanda. "Myths of a Nation: History as Narrative Invention in David Malouf's The Great World." Myths, Heroes and Anti-Heroes: Essays on the Literature and Culture of the Asia-Pacific Region. Ed. Bruce Bennett and Dennis Haskell. Nedlands: Centre for Studies in Aus. Lit., 1992. 132-41.

-----. "Narrative Invention as 'Spatial History' in The Great World." Australian and New Zealand Studies in Canada 7 (1992): 41-52. Also retrievable on-line: <http://www.arts.uwo.ca/~andrewf/anzsc/anzsc7/nettelbeck7.htm>.

-----. "Imagining the Imaginary in An Imaginary Life." Southern Review 26.1 (1993): 28-38.

O'Brien, Susie. "Raising Silent Voices: The Role of the Silent Child in An Imaginary Life and The Bone People." SPAN 30 (1990): 79-91.

Ondaatje, Michael. "A Conversation with David Malouf." Brick 47 (1993): 50-58.

Papastergiadis, Nikos. "David Malouf and Languages for Landscape: An Interview." ARIEL 25.3 (1994): 83-94.

Pati,-Madhusudan. "Banabhattaki Atmakatha and An Imaginary Life: A Comparison in Sensibility." Literary Criterion 29.2 (1994): 1-17.

Pons, Xavier. "Broken Lines, Broken Lives: Discontinuities in David Malouf's The Great World." Commonwealth Essays and Studies 16.2 (1993): 79-87.

Reid,-Ian. "Reframing 'The Child in the House': Short Stories and Neighboring Forms." Creative and Critical Approaches to the Short Story. Ed. Harold Kaylor-Noel, Jr. Lewiston: Mellen, 1997. 315-28.

Rodgers, Shelagh. "'The Other History That Never Gets Recorded.'" Australian and New Zealand Studies in Canada 5 (1991): 94-96.

Spinks,-Les. "Allegory, Space, Colonialism: Remembering Babylon and the Production of Colonial History." Australian Literary Studies 17.2 (1995): 166-74.

Stephens, John. "'Beyond the Limits of Our Speech . . .': David Malouf's An Imaginary Life." Commonwealth Novel in English 3.2 (1990): 160-69.

Taylor, Andrew. "Postmodern Romantic: The Imaginary in David Malouf's An Imaginary Life." Imagining Romanticism: Essays on English and Australian Romanticisms. Ed. Deirdre Coleman and Petter Otto. Locust Hill Literary Studies. West Cornwall, CT: Locust Hill, 1992. 275-90.

Turcotte, Gerry. "Response: Venturing into Undiscoverable Countries: Reading Ondaatje, Malouf, Atwood and Jia in an Asia-Pacific Context." Australian Canadian Studies 16.2 (1997-98): 65-72.

Turner, Barnard. "On Frontiers: The 'Nationalism' of David Malouf's Poetry and Its Implications for a Definition of 'Commonwealth Literature.'" Nationalism vs. Internationalism: (Inter)National Dimensions of Literatures in English. Ed. Wolfgang Zach and Ken. L. Goodwin. Studies in English and Comparative Literature 1. Tübingen: Stauffenburg, 1996. 495-502.

Turner, John P., Jr. "'I Am There': Language and Metamorphosis in David Malouf's An Imaginary Life." SPAN 30 (1990): 92-101.

Wertheim, Albert. "Inscape and Creation in David Malouf's Harland's Half Acre." Commonwealth Essays and Studies 14.2 (1992): 110-13.

Whittick, Sheila. "Excavating Historical Guilt and Moral Failure in Remembering Babylon: An Exploration of the Faultlines in White Australian Identity." Commonwealth Essays and Studies 19.2 (1997): 77-99.

Williams, Barbara. "An Interview with David Malouf: 'People Get Second Chances.'" Australian and New Zealand Studies in Canada 5 (1991): 81-94.

?????. "David Malouf." In Other Words: Interviews with Australian Poets. Ed. Barbara Williams. Cross-Cultures 29. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1998. 96-112.

Winner, Anthony. "David Malouf's Child's Play: Narrative Traditions in a Postmodern Game." Southerly 54.4 (1994-95): 116-30.

Younis, Raymond Aaron. "Race, Representation and Nationhood." Australian Canadian Studies 16.2 (1997-98): 43-63.

?????. "Apropos the Last 'Post-': Contemporary Literature, Theory, and Interpretation." Literature and Theology 10.3 (1996): 280-89.

David Malouf. Commonwealth Essays and Studies 16.2 (1993): 51-87.

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Ben Okri's The Famished Road


Aizenberg, Edna. "The Famished Road: Magical Realism and the Search for Social Equity." Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature 43 (1995): 25-30.

?????. "'I Walked With a Zombie': The Pleasures and Perils of Postcolonial Hybridity." World Literature Today 73.3 (1999): 461-66

Balzer, C.D. "Mme-dolph and the Question of (Postcolonial) Art." Commonwealth Essays and Studies 18.2 (1996) 13-20.

Bardolph, Jacqueline. "Azaro, Saleem and Askar: Brothers in Allegory." Commonwealth Essays and Studies 15.1 (1992): 45-51.

Bennett, Robert. "Ben Okri (1959- )." Postcolonial African Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Source Book. Ed. Pushpa Naidu Parekh et al. Westport, CT : Greenwood, 1998. 64-73.

Cezair-Thompson, Margaret. "Beyond the Postcolonial Novel: Ben Okri's The Famished Road and Its 'Abiku' Traveller." The Journal of Commonwealth Literature 31.2 (1996): 33-45

Falconer, Delia. "Whisperings of The Gods: An Interview with Ben Okri." Island Magazine 71 (1997): 43-51.

Garnier, Xavier. "L'Invisible dans The Famished Road de Ben Okri." Commonwealth Essays and Studies 15.2 (1993): 50-57.

Hawley, John C. "Ben Okri's Spirit-Child: Abiku Migration and Postmodernity." Research in African Literatures 26.1 (1995): 30-39.

Houpt, Simon. "Ben Okri: The Landscapes Within." African Literature Association Bulletin 18.3 (1992): 37-39.

Köhler, Florian.   Ein Nigerianischer Schriftsteller in London: Ben Okri.  18.02.2000. <http://ietpd1.sowi.uni-mainz.de/~ntama/reviews/okri/>.  (incl. bibliography)

Mamudu, Ayo. " Portrait of a Young Artist in Ben Okri's The Landscapes Within." Commonwealth Essays and Studies 13.2 (1991): 85-91.

Niven, Alastair. "Achebe and Okri: Contrasts in the Response to Civil War." Short Fiction in the New Literatures in English: Proc. of the Nice Conf. of the European Assn. for Commonwealth Lit. & Lang. Studies. Ed. J. Bardolph. Nice: Fac. des Lettres & Sciences Humaines, 1989. 277-83.

Nnolim, Charles E. "The Time Is Out of Joint: Ben Okri as a Social Critic." Commonwealth Novel in English 6.1-2 (1993): 61-68.

Ogunsanwo, Olatubosun. "Intertextuality and Post-Colonial Literature in Ben Okri's The Famished Road." Research in African Literatures 26.1 (1995): 40-52.

Quayson, Ato. "Looking Awry: Tropes of Disability in Post-Colonial Writing." An Introduction to Contemporary Fiction: International Writing in English since 1970. Ed. Rod Mengham. Cambridge: Polity, 1999. 53-68.

Quayson, Ato. "Protocols of Representation and the Problems of Constituting an African 'Gnosis': Achebe and Okri." Yearbook of English Studies 27 (1997): 137-49.

Shoop, Bradley C. and Alice O'Dea.  Ben Okri.  18.02.2000. <http://www.utc.edu/~engldept/booker/okri.htm>.

Uprety, Sanjeev Kumor. "Disability and Postcoloniality in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children and Third-World Novels." The Disability Studies Reader. Ed. J. Davis-Lennard. New York, NY: Routledge, 1997. 366-81.

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Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children


Abbes, Hedi. "Ben Abracadabra ou la magie de la conclusion de Midnight's Children." Etudes Britanniques Contemporaines 1 (1992): 63-71.

Abrioux, Cynthia Carey. "In the Name of the Nation: Salman Rushdie's Shame." Commonwealth Essays and Studies 18.1 (1995): 48-55.

Afzal-Khan, Fawzia. "Myth De-Bunked: Genre and Ideology in Rushdie's Midnight's Children and Shame." The Journal of Indian Writing in English 14.1 (1986): 49-60.

Afzal-Khan, Fawzia. Cultural Imperialism and the Indo-English Novel: Genre and Ideology in R. K. Narayan, Anita Desai, Kamala Markandaya, and Salman Rushdie. University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 1993.

Afzal-Khan, Fawzia. "Myth De-Bunked: Genre and Ideology in Rushdie's Midnight's Children & Shame." South Asian Review 17.14 (1993): 76-84.

Aikant, Satish C. "Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children: The Middle Ground of Diaspora." Interrogating Post-Colonialism: Theory, Text and Context. Ed. Harish Trivedi and Meenakshi Mukherjee. Rashtrapati Nivas: Indian Institute of Advanced Study, 1996. 213-20.

Atwood,-Margaret. "Silencing the Scream." Profession (1994): 44-47.

Banerjee, Ashutosh. "Narrative Technique in Midnight's Children." The Commonwealth Review 1.2 (1990): 23-32.

Bardolph, Jacqueline. "Azaro, Saleem and Askar: Brothers in Allegory." Commonwealth Essays and Studies 15.1 (1992): 45-51.

Ben-Abbes, Hedi. "Abracadabra ou la magie de la conclusion de Midnight's Children de S. Rushdie." Fins de romans: Aspects de la conclusion dans la litterature anglaise. Ed. Lucien Le Bouille. Caen: PU de Caen, 1993. 85-94.

Birch, David. "Postmodernist Chutneys." Textual-Practice 5.1 (1991): 1-7.

Booker, M. Keith. "Beauty and the Beast: Dualism as Despotism in the Fiction of Salman Rushdie." ELH 57.4 (1990): 977-97.

Borner, Klaus. "The Reception of Midnight's Children in West Germany." The Commonwealth Review 1.2 (1990): 10-22.

Brennan, Tim. "Rushdie, Islam, and Postcolonial Criticism." Social Text 10.2-3 (1992): 271-75.

Brennan,-Tim. "Fantasy, Individuality, and the Politics of Liberation." Polygraph 1.1 (1987): 89-99.

Brennan, Timothy A. "India, Nationalism, and Other Failures." South Atlantic Quarterly 87.1 (1988): 131-46.

Conner, Marc C. "Midnight's Children and the Apocalypse of Form." Critique 38.4 (1997): 289-99.

Cook, Rufus. "Cultural Displacement and Narrative Duplicity." Centennial Review 41.2 (1997): 205-16.

Cook, Rufus. "Place and Displacement in Salman Rushdie's Work." World Literature Today 68.1 (1994): 23-28.

Cropley-Gonzalez,-Madelena. "The Birth of Revolt through Historiographic Metafiction in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children and The Satanic Verses." Historicite et metafiction dans le roman contemporain des Iles Britanniques. Ed. Max Duperray. Aix-en-Provence: Univ. de Provence, 1994. 197-206.

Cundy, Catherine. Salman Rushdie. Contemporary World Writers. Manchester: MUP, 1996.

Dell'Aversano, Carmen. "Mitopoiesi o mistificazione? L'epos postmoderno di Midnight's Children." Strumenti Critici 10.3 (1995): 341-66.

Dingwaney, Anuradha. "Author(iz)ing Midnight's Children and Shame: Salman Rushdie's Constructions of Authority." Reworlding: The Literature of the Indian Diaspora. Ed. Emmanuel S. Nelson. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1992. 157-68.

Donnerstag, Jürgen. "Hybrid Forms of Multiculturalism in the Fiction of Salman Rushdie." Nationalism vs. Internationalism: (Inter)National Dimensions of Literatures in English. Ed. Wolfgang Zach and Ken L. Goodwin. Studies in English and Comparative Literature 1. Tübingen: Stauffenburg, 1996. 455-60.

Durix, Jean Pierre. "Salman Rushdie's Declaration of Kaleidoscopic Identity." Declarations of Cultural Independence in the English-Speaking World: A Symposium. Univ. degli Studi di Milano. Ed. Luigi Sampietro. Milan: D'Imperio Editore Novara, 1989. 173-84.

Dutheil, Martine Hennard. "Rushdie's Affiliation with Dickens." Dickens Studies Annual 27 (1998): 209-226.

Flanagan, Kathleen. "The Fragmented Self in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children." Commonwealth Novel in English 5.1 (1992): 38-45.

Göbel, Walter and Damian Grant. "Salman Rushdie's Silver Medal." Laurence Sterne in Modernism and Postmodernism. Ed. David Pierce and Peter de Voogd. Postmodern Studies 15. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1995. 87-98.

Gonzalez, Maria Luz. "Subversion of History and the Creation of Alternative Realities in Salman Rushdie." Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses 28 (1994): 41-51.

Gorra, Michael. "Naipaul or Rushdie." Southwest Review 76.3 (1991): 374-89.

Habib, Imtiaz. "Interrogating Cultures: Hybrid Subjectivity as Third Space in R. K. Narayan's The Guide, V. S. Naipaul's A House for Mr. Biswas, and Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children." Studies in the Humanities 23.1 (1996): 28-52.

Harrison, James. Salman Rushdie. Twayne's English Authors Series 488. New York: Twayne, 1992.

Hawes,-Clement. "Leading History by the Nose: The Turn to the Eighteenth Century in Midnight's Children." MFS 39.1 (1993): 147-68.

Huggan, Graham. "The Postcolonial Exotic: Salman Rushdie and the Booker of Bookers." Transition 64 (1994): 22-29.

Iftekharukddin, Farat. "Postmodernism and Quantum Realities in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children: Regional Insights and National Outcomes." Literature of Region and Nation: Proc. of the 6th Intern. Lit. of Region and Nation Conf., 2-7 August 1996. Ed. Winnifred M. Bogaards. 2 vols. Saint John, NB: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, with University of New Brunswick in Saint John, 1998. 2: 413-22.

Islam, Syed Manzurul. "Writing the Postcolonial Event: Salman Rushdie's August 15th, 1947." Textual Practice 13.1 (1999): 119-35,

Juan-Hatchard, Luis de. "Saleem's Historical Discourse in Midnight's Children." Miscelanea 15 (1994): 331-45.

Juan-Navarro, Santiago. "The Dialogic Imagination of Salman Rushdie and Carlos Fuentes: National Allegories and the Scene of Writing in Midnight's Children and Cristobal Nonato." Neohelicon 20.2 (1993): 257-311.

Jussawalla, Feroza . "Fact versus Fiction: Attenborough's Gandhi and Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children." ACLALS Bulletin 7.4 (1986): 70-78.

Kamra, Sukeshi. "Replacing the Colonial Gaze: Gender as Strategy in Salman Rushdie's Fiction." Between the Lines: South Asians and Post-Coloniality. Ed. Deepika Bahri and Mary Vasudeva. Asian American History and Culture. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 1996. 237-49.

Kane, Jean M. "The Migrant Intellectual and the Body of History: Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children." Contemporary Literature 37.1 (1996): 94-118.

Kortenaar, Neil-ten. "Midnight's Children and the Allegory of History." ARIEL 26.2 (1995): 41-62.

Langeland, Agnes Scott. "Rushdie's Language." English Today 12.1 (1996): 16-22.

Lewis, Robin Jared. "Salman Rushdie: Midnight's Children." Masterworks of Asian Literature in Comparative Perspective: A Guide for Teaching. Ed. Barbara Stoler Miller. Columbia Project on Asia in the Core Curriculum. Armonk, NY: Sharpe, 1994. 178-88.

Lipscomb, David. "Caught in a Strange Middle Ground: Contesting History in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children." Diaspora 1.2 (1991): 163-89.

Maslon,-Slawomir. "Matter of Paradise." The Wild and the Tame: Essays in Cultural Practice. Ed. Wojciech Kalaga and Tadeusz Rachwal. History of Foreign Literatures. Katowice: Uniwersytet Slaski, 1997. 101-06.

Mee,-Jon. "'Itihasa'; Thus It Was': Mukul Kesavan's Looking through Glass and the Rewriting of History." ARIEL 29.1 (1998): 145-61.

Merivale, Patricia. "Saleem Fathered by Oskar: Midnight's Children, Magic Realism, and The Tin Drum." Magical Realism: Theory, History, Community. Ed. Lois Parkinson Zamora and Wendy B. Faris. Durham: Duke UP, 1995. 329-45.

Mukherjeee, Arun P. "Characterization in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children: Breaking out of the Hold of Realism and Seeking the 'Alienation Effect.'" The New Indian Novel in English: A Study of the 1980s. Ed. Viney Kirpal. New Delhi : Allied Publishers Ltd., 1990. 109-20.

Natarajan, Nalini. "Woman, Nation, and Narration in Midnight's Children." Scattered Hegemonies: Postmodernity and Transnational Feminist Practices. Ed. Inderpal Grewal and Caren Kaplan. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1994. 76-89.

Neumeier, Beate. "Passages to and from India: E. M. Forster and Salman Rushdie." Anglistentag 1993 Eichstatt: Proceedings. Ed. Günther Blaicher and Brigitte Glaser. Proceedings of the Conference of the German Association of University Teachers of English 15. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1994. 163-75.

Noor, Ronny. "Misrepresentation of History in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children." Notes on Contemporary Literature 26.2 (1996): 7-8.

Panjabi,-Kavita. "From Community to Nation: Contradiction or Transition? A Comparison of Midnight's Children, Neighbours and The Temple Pavillion." ICLA '91 Tokyo: The Force of Vision, II: Visions in History; Visions of the Other. Ed. Earl Miner et al. Proc. of the XIIIth Cong. of the Internat. Compar. Lit. Assn./Actes du XIIIeme Cong. de l'Assoc. Internat. de Lit. Compar. Tokyo: Internat. Compar. Lit. Assn., 1995. 234-41.

Piwinski, David J. "Losing Eden in Modern Bombay: Rushdie's Midnight Children." Notes on Contemporary Literature 23.3 (1993): 10-12.

Poree, Marc. "Midnight's Children de Salman Rushdie ou les avatars du corps dans l'histoire." Les Figures du corps dans la litterature et la peinture anglaises et americaines de la Renaissance a nos jours. Ed. Bernard Brugiere. Serie Langues et Langages. Paris: Pubs. de la Sorbonne, 1991. 277-88.

Price, David W. "Salman Rushdie's 'Use and Abuse of History' in Midnight's Children." ARIEL 25.2 (1994): 91-107.

Rahman, Tariq. "Politics in the Novels of Salman Rushdie." The Commonwealth Review 1.2 (1990): 102-17.

Rahman, Tariq. "Politics in the Novels of Salman Rushdie." Commonwealth Novel in English 4.1 (1991): 24-37.

Rao, M. Madhusudhana. "Quest for Identity: A Study of the Narrative in Rushdie's Midnight's Children. Literary Criterion 25.4 (1990): 31-42.

Rao, M. Madhusudhana. "Time and Timelessness in Rushdie's Fiction." The Commonwealth Review 1.2 (1990): 135-45.

Rege, Josna E. "Victim into Protagonist? Midnight's Children and the Post-Rushdie National Narratives of the Eighties." Studies in the Novel 29.3 (1997): 342-75.

Riemenschneider, Dieter. "History and the Individual in Anita Desai's Clear Light of Day and Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children." The New Indian Novel in English: A Study of the 1980s. Ed. Viney Kirpal. New Delhi: Allied Publishers Ltd., 1990. 187-200.

Shepherd,-Ron. "Midnight's Children as Fantasy." The Commonwealth Review 1.2 (1990): 33-43.

Singh, Satya Brat. "Rudy Wiebe, Paul Scott and Salman Rushdie: Historians Distanced from History." The Commonwealth Review 1.2 (1990): 146-56.

Singh, Sushila. "Salman Rushdie's Novels: From Fantasy to Reality." The Commonwealth Review 1.1 (1989): 111-23.

Srivastava, Aruna. "'The Empire Writes Back': Language and History in Shame and Midnight's Children." Past the Last Post: Theorizing Post-Colonialism and Post-Modernism. Ed. Ian Adam and Helen Tiffin. Calgary: U of Calgary P, 1990. 65-78.

Swain, S.P. "Theme of Fragmentation: Rushdie's Midnight's Children." Literary Half Yearly 36.2 (1995): 29-40.

Swann, Joseph. "'East Is East and West Is West'? Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children as an Indian Novel." The New Indian Novel in English: A Study of the 1980s. Ed. Viney Kirpal. New Delhi: Allied Publishers Ltd., 1990. 251-62.

Syed, Mujeebuddin. "Midnight's Children and Its Indian Con-Texts." The Journal of Commonwealth Literature 29.2 (1994): 95-108.

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