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A STUDY ON HISTORICAL FICTION AS DESCRIBED IN SALMAN RUSHDIE'S NOVELS

Jagdish Chander

Volume: 3 Issue: 4 2013

Abstract:

Post-colonial historiography and historical fiction have come to share common concerns about representation with post-modem historic-graphic met fiction where story telling along with revelation in their own narratively becomes a historical and political act. As Simon argues, post- colonial writing becomes one of the ways of subverting imperial myths by 'foregrounding the fact that history is not a set of immovable past achievements but a discourse, open to reinterpretation.'

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