Midnight's Children

Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie

1. Reading Resources
2. Video Resources
3. Online Test - Check your understanding
4. Presentations
   
   
   
   

1. Reading resources

• eText - Original Novel

• Introduction: About the Author- Salman Rushdie and 'Midnight's Children'

• 'English' in Midnight's Children

• Themes in Midnight's Children

  • History and the Individual

  • Colonialism and neo-colonialism in India

  • Fragmentation, Migrancy and Memory

• Technique in Midnight's Children

• Characterization in Midnight's Children

• Midnight's Children as Literary Event

  • Postcolonial Novel

  • Postmodern Novel

  • Historical Fiction

• Hybridity and Postcoloniality: Formal, Social, and Historical Innovations in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children (Research Chapter)

2. Video Resources

• Characters in Midnight's Children
• Narrative Technique in Midnight's Children
• Reading Symbols
• Mr Rushdie and Mrs. Gandhi
• Postcolonial Reading - Nation & Hybridity in Midnight's Children

3. Check your understanding - appear in an online test

4. Presentations:

(i) Narrative Technique in 'Midnight's Children'

(ii) Postcolonialism in 'Midnight's Children'

(iii) Symbols in 'Midnight's Children'

(iv) Mr. Rushdie and Mrs. Gandhi

Narrative Technique in Midnight's Children from Dilip Barad

Postcolonialism and Midnight's Children from Dilip Barad

Symbols in Midnight's Children from Dilip Barad

Mr. Rushdie and Mrs. Gandhi - Midnight's Children from Dilip Barad

Self-learning from Videos of Personal Presentations and Students' learning experience

The collage of stamp size photographs of students making presentations with a handy-cam in the centre represents the innovative practice of 'Presentations used for 'self-appraisal' and 'self-improvement'. The DVD of all presentations is given to students and are asked to view with their family, friends and relatives. We have experienced drastic change in students' command over language, body language, pitch, tone, expressions and presentation skills as they move from sem 1 to sem 4. (Oct 2013)

The experience shared by the pass out students will be available soon on this blog.

Post by Department of English - Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University.