The Liminal Space in Salman Rushdie’s The Midnight’s Children

Abstract

Salman Rushdie’s “The Midnight’s Children” is a work that has been the focus of interdisciplinary studies for decades now. It has achieved the status of a cornerstone in studying, analysing, and understanding the concepts of Post-Colonialism, Magic Realism, and Identity through different perspectives. It still remains a work that captivates the attention of researchers because of the multifarious ideas placed subtly within the work. The aim of my paper is to study the aspect of liminality in Salman Rushdie’s “The Midnight’s Children”. Liminality is an anthropological term that refers to a tumultuous phase between two major events, in this case, the events of Independence and Partition. Rushdie’s narrative technique in his masterpiece has introduced an alternative to chronological narration and has been accepted by post-colonial writers grappling with issues of identity and memory. In my paper, I have studied how Rushdie’s fragmented narration highlights the issues of diasporic writers in their works.