Systems and accidents in 20th century magical realist literature: Salman Rushdie's "Midnight's Children" and Sadegh Hedayat's "The blind owl" as critiques of modern nation-making experiments
This article compares two major 20th century magical realist novels - Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children and Sadegh Hedayat's The Blind Owl - as critiques of modern nation-making practices, in Nehruvian post-independence India and Iran under Reza Shah Pahlavi. The analysis centers t...
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New Bulgarian University
2015-12-01
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| Series: | English Studies at NBU |
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| Online Access: | https://esnbu.org/data/files/2015/esnbu.15.2.4.pdf |