NP no mo Indian PoMo?

Doug Millison millison at online-journalist.com
Mon Jul 3 12:52:06 CDT 2000


And although their voices are being heard much more loudly in the 
West than in India, they are ushering in a new era for Indian 
literature in English. They are often called Midnight's Grandchildren 
in homage to another seminal Indian novel, Salman Rushdie's 
"Midnight's Children," the dark parable of Indian history since 
independence that won the Booker Prize in 1981 and in 1993 won a 
special Booker Prize as the best British novel of the previous 
quarter century. Now the new generation of writers have in many ways 
broken away from the magic realism that characterizes much of Mr. 
Rushdie's work. [...] "Magic realism was very popular with writers 
who came immediately after Rushdie," he said, "but the same writers 
have turned away from it. I think it is because of the inherent 
unsatisfactoriness of the form, the way in which its formulas further 
confuse and complicate an already confused and complicated reality."
http://www.nytimes.com/library/books/070300indian-writers.html



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