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  • Chapter 23 - Salman Rushdie and Postcolonialism

  • from Part IV - Critical Theoretical Contexts
  • Edited by Florian Stadtler, University of Bristol
  • Book:
    Salman Rushdie in Context
    Published online:
    23 March 2023
    Print publication:
    30 March 2023, pp 293-304

  • Summary

    The rise of postcolonial literary studies is closely entwined with the publishing success of the work of Salman Rushdie; the two have fed off each other. Rushdie’s work engages with several key concepts of postcolonialism. He challenges colonial discourses and historiography, castigates the post-independence state authorities in both India and Pakistan, and portrays new forms of hybrid cultural identities and processes of global migration. While Rushdie has projected himself as an Indian writer with inside knowledge of that country, the many palpable errors in his work as well as his strong British affiliations complicate this claim. So does a comparison with some indigenous postcolonial writers who still live in the subcontinent and write in an Indian language.

  • Teaching Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable: Colonial Context, Nationalism, Caste

  • S. Shankar
  • Journal:
    Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry / Volume 4 / Issue 2 / April 2017
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    06 July 2017, pp. 332-341

  • Mulk Raj Anand’s novel Untouchable (1935) offers opportunities to introduce and explore a variety of theoretical, historical, and ethical issues in the classroom. A canonical text of Indian writing in English, the novel presents a day in the fictionalized life of a Dalit (“untouchable”) boy in colonial India. As such, it is situated aesthetically in the triangular tension between colonial modernity, Gandhian nationalism, and Ambedkarite anti-caste radicalism. Untouchable enables rich discussions in relationship to these aspects through contextualization and comparison. Especially fruitful is re-evaluating the novel in the light of new work in relationship to caste.