Postmodern Paradigm and Salman Rushdie’s Fiction

About the Book

The book highlights postmodern fiction and more so Rushdie’s fiction, which is concerned with: 1. A preoccupation with viability of systems and representations 2. The decentring of the subject and the inscription of multiple fictive selves 3. Narrative fragmentation, narrative reflexivity, and narratives which double-back on their own presuppositions 4. An open-ended play with formal divides challenging the presuppositions of literary realism 5. Abolition of the cultural divide between high and popular forms of culture, embracing all in a mélange 6. The displacement of the real by simulacra in Baudrillardian sense 7. Incredulity toward the metanarratives as Lyotard puts it

About the Author

Dr Shaikh Suhel Samad is an assistant professor in English, Sir Sayyed College of Arts, Commerce, and Science, affiliated to Dr BAM University, Aurangabad, MS, India. He did his PhD on postmodernism. He completed UGC Research Project titled “Thomas Pynchon and Postmodernity.” He has published eleven articles in reputed journals. He guided seven students for MPhil degree and currently two students are working for their PhD under his guidance. Dr Shaikh Suhel Samad has presented papers in many national and international conferences. He has delivered lectures to postgraduate and MPhil classes in various colleges. He is a regular resource person for refresher courses at Academic Staff College, SGBA University, Amravati. His area of specialization is literary criticism, critical theory, postmodernism, and linguistics. His area of interest is cultural studies and postmodern literature. Currently, he is working on a book on linguistics and critical theory.