Emergence of New Novel and Contribution of Salman Rushdie to Indian English Fiction


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  • Dr Jyoti Patil Principal & Head, Dept. of English Renuka College, Besa, Nagpur, India

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https://doi.org/10.53032/tcl.2019.4.2.02

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Cross-culturalism, Globalization, Marginalization, New Fiction, Political Reality

Abstract

After the publication of Salman Rushdie’s second novel Midnight’s Children (1980), there is an emergence of New Fiction marking the beginning of New Era in the history of Indian Writing in English. A large number of novelists living in India and abroad write fiction in great number and thereby breaking the stigma of the marginalization of Indian English Fiction. They introduce various components of modern theories regarding the composition of the fiction. They also prove their superiority over their western counterparts by achieving remarkable recognition on international platforms and by winning various coveted awards like Booker Prize, Pulitzer Prize and even Nobel Prize by V S Naipaul. These Indian English writers include Amitav Ghosh, Vikram Seth, Arundhati Roy, Jhumpa Lahiri, Anita Desai, Kiran Desai, Pankaj Mishra, Chetan Bhagat, Rohintan Mistry, Arvind Adiga, Shashi Tharoor and many more. The New novelists of the 21st century handle the themes of globalization, Political reality and cross-culturalism more effectively and brilliantly. In the present paper the focus will be on the assessment of emergence of New Fiction with its various traitsand contribution of Salman Rushdie in Indian English Fiction in the development of New Novel.

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Published

2019-06-30

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Dr Jyoti Patil. “Emergence of New Novel and Contribution of Salman Rushdie to Indian English Fiction”. The Creative Launcher, vol. 4, no. 2, June 2019, pp. 10-17, doi:10.53032/tcl.2019.4.2.02.

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