Giving Voice to Multiple Realities: Polyphony and Magic Realism in Midnight's Children by Deniz KIRPIKLI

“…Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children (1981) presents the autobiographical account of its unreliable narrator that forms a parallel to the history of India. …”
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Secularism in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's children and Vikram Seth's A suitable boy by Srivastava, N

“…<p>This thesis is a comparative study of Salman Rushdie's <em>Midnight's Children</em> (1981) and Vikram Seth's <em>A Suitable Boy</em> (1993). …”

Finding the Self in the Otherness of Nature: The Sundarbans and Postcolonial Identity in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children by Önder ÇETİN

“…This article aims to do an ecocritical reading of “the Sundarbans” chapter of Midnight's Children focusing on Saleem Sınai's search for his identity and finding it in one of the most beautiful and also perilous forests in the world. …”
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The Subversion of the Meanings of Food Tropes in Salman Rushdie’s Novel “Midnight’s Children” by Jūratė Radavičiūtė

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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 by Tadd Graham Fernée

“…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. …”
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TEACHING SPACE, PLACE, AND LITERATURE / by Tally, Robert T., editor

“…Multiple Identities and Imaginative Spatiality in Kipling's Kim and Rushdie's Midnight's Children, Safia Sahli Rejeb21. Teaching Non-Places in British Children's Fantasy Literature, Hannah Swamidoss22. …”

Disability, normalcy, and the failures of the nation: a reading of selected fiction by Salman Rushdie, Rohinton Mistry, Indra Sinha, and Firdaus Kanga by Yorke, S

“…</p> <p>In the second chapter, which is entitled "The Medical and the Monstrous: Disability in Salman Rushdie's <em>Midnight's Children</em>, <em>Shame</em>, and <em>The Moor’s Last Sigh</em>," I consider how the disabled body is created as an object of competition in an ideological agon between a violent, globalized modernity and a sometimes-idealized fictive past. …”

Narratives of Secular Nationalism in Salman Rushdie’s “Midnight’s Children” and “The Moor’s Last Sigh” by Swatee Sinha, Anjali Gera Roy

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