FICTION WITH A MISSION: HISTORY ASLIVEDEXPERIENCE IN SALMAN RUSHDIE’SNOVELS

Diversitate si Identitate Culturala in Europa

Angela STĂNESCU¹ 

[1] „Valahia” University of Târgoviște;

关键词: History;    historiography;    postcolonial;    fiction;    discourse;   

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来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The present article focuses on the central idea of historical recuperation permeating the novels of Salman Rushdie, especially as it appears from the novelist`s professions of intent regarding his own work. For Rushdie`s auto-diegetic narrators, the shape of private history can only be discerned from the kaleidoscopic lens of micro-history. Most of them are writer-cum-historian figures deploying the written word as a defence against the illusion-fostering discourses of the powers that be and their official version of history. Albeit painfully aware of the unreliability of their perceptions and memory, baffled by politicised delusion and contending official versions of history, Rushdie`s protagonists strive to salvage the truths of their experience from the c orruptions of time, change or forgetfulness. Their compulsion to narrate stems from an often messianic sense of mission, which means retracing the meanings of their living history, dissipated in the clamour of the multiplying discourses of metamorphic hist orical realities.

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