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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