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| Article Name : | | | Historiographic Metafiction and Rushdie's Midnight's Children | | Author Name : | | | Nadeem Jahangir | | Publisher : | | | Ashok Yakkaldevi | | Article Series No. : | | | GRT-1418 | | Article URL : | |  | Author Profile View PDF In browser | | Abstract : | | | The postmodern Indian English novel is typically characterized by a rather confusing intermingling of genres. This ambiguity and intermixing of genres is mostly evident in the promiscuous blurring of boundaries between fact and fiction, history and myth. The twin elements of fact and fiction have come to play a dominant role in the postmodern texts with writers like Salman Rushdie, Shashi Tharoor and Amitav Ghosh being its ardent exponents. As literature has its roots in history, it often nourished and took sustenance from it. But in the recent times this relationship between myth and history or fact and fiction has become problematic. This problematization of the boundaries is one of the characteristics of postmodernism. | | Keywords : | | |
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