• Abu Shahid Abdullah

  Author

Midnight’s Children is the story of Saleem Sinai, the narrator, whose birth
parallels the emergence of independent India. By the apt use of magical realism, he narrates his life story and relates it to the national history of India. Rushdie uses the magical realist technique to talk about the postcolonial people of India, and different postcolonial issues. Instead of using realist technique, he employs this particular technique to expose and comment on different social and political problems a newly
independent country like India has to encounter. Here, magic has been considered a regional alternative and a protest to the Eurocentric categorization of the world. It is used to reinterpret the colonial version of history and provide an alternative and nativized version. 

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