Abstract
From Elephant God to Man Dog: Hybridity, Mimicry, and the Homo Sacer in Salman Rushdie’s “Midnight’s Children”
Highlights
FROM ELEPHANT GOD TO MAN DOG functions of these key features for Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children for lifting the corks of forgetting and disclosing the concealment of India’s past
Using Grass’s Tin Drum and the German postwar cultural-political situation as a model, Rushdie copies Grass in reenchanting a secularized country grappling with the memory of genocide through a set of mythological paradigms
By drawing on postcolonial theory and the biopolitical concept of the homo sacer this essay analyses Rushdie’s particular brand of what I have termed as mythical realism in view of its close amalgamation of hybridity with mimicry, subversive mockery, and liminality between the human and the animal, typical features of the postmodern novel trying to come to terms with war and genocide
Summary
FROM ELEPHANT GOD TO MAN DOG functions of these key features for Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children for lifting the corks of forgetting and disclosing the concealment of India’s past. In Grass and Rushdie, hybridity is used in particular to mock the ideas of purity and the zero hour of the nation state, which imply forgetting, a historical tabula rasa.
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