Hybridity in Midnight's Children
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This document summarizes a paper analyzing themes of hybridity in Salman Rushdie's novel Midnight's Children. It defines hybridity as the mixture of two cultures, religions, or races. The paper discusses how hybridity is illustrated through the novel's diverse characters and their relationships, such as the complicated relationship between Saleem and Shiva due to their differing religions. It also analyzes how the characters Saleem, Shiva, and Parvati connect to Hindu mythology. In conclusion, the document states that hybridity is now seen everywhere and must be accepted as a sign of interdependence between nations.
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Hybridity in Midnight's Children
- 1. • Class: M.A. Sem-3 • Roll No.: 07 • Paper No. 11: The Postcolonial Literatere • Enrollment No.: 14101030 • Prepared By: Dipti Vaghela (diptivaghela50@gmail.com) • Submitted To: Department of English Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University Hybridity in Midnight’s Children
- 2. Index • What is Hybridity ? • Midnight’s Children novel • There are three major themes as postcolonial book. • Hybridity in Midnight’s children • Examples from movie • Conclusion
- 3. What is Hybridity? • Hybridity is the mixture of two cultures, religion or races. • It can be social, political, linguistic, religious, etc. • It not necessarily a peaceful mixture.
- 4. Midnight’s Children novel • It is published in 1981. • It is central text in postcolonial literature. • Saleem, Shiva and Parvati these are main characters in the novel. • It is story about the clash between two religious.
- 5. There are three major themes as postcolonial book. • The creation and telling of history. • The creation and telling of a nation’s and individual's identity. • The creation and telling of stories.
- 6. Hybridity in Midnight’s children • The novel’s social and cultural hybridization, illustrated through the multitude of differing characters. • These cultural and religious division clearly highlighted through Saleem’s relationship with Shiva and Parvati. • Salee’s relationship with Shiva remains complicated because of the nature of their birth and religion. • And from those characters we can say that religious and cultural hybridity present in India.
- 7. • Saleem and Shiva remain in contrast battle with each other, and each struggles against the other to gain power. • These three names are also connected with Hindu mythology. Saleem Shiva Parvati
- 9. Conclusion I conclude my topic with some ideas that now a days hybridity we can see every where. And we can’t escape from it, so we must have to except it. And it means inter dependence of nations. And nothing wrong in this.