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https://hdl.handle.net/10356/38805| Title: | Chutnifying history : An insight into the Indian emergency of 1975 through postmodern fiction. | Authors: | Karthickeyen Govindaraj. | Keywords: | DRNTU::Humanities::Literature::English | Issue Date: | 2010 | Abstract: | This paper, through Salman Rushdie's 'Midnight's Children' and Rohinton Mistry's 'A Fine Balance', will analyse how the Indian Emergency of 1975 is seen through the eyes of postmodern writers. Through this analysis, the paper will argue that Rushdie and Mistry "chutnify" history in order to give a voice to the losers of history and the subaltern - indirectly providing the reader with an alternative version of the Indian Emergency | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10356/38805 | Schools: | School of Humanities and Social Sciences | Rights: | Nanyang Technological University | Fulltext Permission: | restricted | Fulltext Availability: | With Fulltext |
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