• Dr. R. Chakkaravarthy

  Author

Mikhail Bakhtin popularized the term “carnivalesque” through his Rabelais
and His World.Salman Rushdie, as any other magical realist, makes this an important
ingredient of his fiction. Carnivalesque adds that extra dimension to life as it often
tends to break off from the routine and mundane. People in the postmodern world
crave for exquisite sensations and as a result, bizarre and grotesque game shows and
entertainments and e-games have found their ways into the lives of the people. The
present paper, in its two sections, shows i) the aspects of carnivalesque and ii) how it
is exploited in The Ground Beneath Her Feet.

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