Salman Rushdie’s Sea World: Haroun and the Sea of Stories
As in works by other Indian writers, water as a symbol plays a crucial role in several novels by Salman Rushdie, the imagery being rooted in the Hindu worldview. Protagonists who find themselves immersed in bodies of water, be it in Midnight’s Children (1981) or The Satanic Verses (1988), are not th...
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openedition-oai:revues.org:angles_843 https://doi.org/10.4000/angles.843 urn:doi:10.4000/angles.843 en https://journals.openedition.org/angles/843 2020-07-16T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/9mz0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Salman Rushdie’s Sea World: Haroun and the Sea of Stories Angles Société des Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2274-2042 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/angles Volná, Ludmila littérature histoire mer eau narration Je/soi cosmologie hindoue totalitarisme Rushdie Salman Inde littérature pour enfants literature sea water story storytelling I/self Hindu cosmology totalitarianism Rushdie Salman India children’s literature As in works by other Indian writers, water as a symbol plays a crucial role in several novels by Salman Rushdie, the imagery being rooted in the Hindu worldview. Protagonists who find themselves immersed in bodies of water, be it in Midnight’s Children (1981) or The Satanic Verses (1988), are not the same people when they come out of them (if they do). This is true also for Rushdie’s two works for children, Haroun and the Sea of Stories (1991) and Luka and the Fire of Life (2010). In the former, the author introduces different worlds that are nevertheless interconnected, each with a reality of its own. Haroun, the child protagonist, travels from the world of apparent everyday reality (represented by planet Earth) to a Moon world called Kahani. The journey to, and on, the sea waters that cover a large portion of Kahani depicts an entirely different dimension of reality. Stories and dreams occurring in this land of fiction symbolize the healing power of the imaginary. This article proposes an analysis of this literary material using the Hindu worldview as a point of departure and elaborating on the different aspects of Rushdie's representation of the sea. Comme pour d’autres auteurs indiens, l’eau comme symbole joue un rôle crucial dans plusieurs romans de Salman Rushdie, l’imagerie aquatique étant enracinée dans une vision du monde hindoue. Les protagonistes immergés dans des masses d’eau, que ce soit dans les Enfants de Minuit (1981) ou Les Versets sataniques (1988), ne sont pas les mêmes lorsqu’ils en ressortent (s'ils y parviennent). Cela est vrai aussi pour les deux livres pour enfants de Rushdie, Haroun et la Mer des histoires (1991) et Luka et le feu de la vie (2010). Dans le premier, l’auteur présente des mondes différents et néanmoins liés, chacun avec une réalité propre. Haroun, l’enfant protagoniste, se déplace du monde de la réalité quotidienne apparente (représentée par la planète Terre) pour aller vers un monde lunaire appelé Kahani. Le voyage aux sources et à travers les eaux de la mer qui couvrent la majeure partie de Kahani représente une dimension entièrement différente de la réalité. Les histoires et les rêves qui ont lieu sur cette terre de fiction symbolisent le pouvoir guérisseur de l'imaginaire. Cet article propose d’analyser ce matériel littéraire, utilisant la vision du monde hindoue comme point de départ pour étudier les différents aspects de la représentation de la mer chez Rushdie. |
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As in works by other Indian writers, water as a symbol plays a crucial role in several novels by Salman Rushdie, the imagery being rooted in the Hindu worldview. Protagonists who find themselves immersed in bodies of water, be it in Midnight’s Children (1981) or The Satanic Verses (1988), are not the same people when they come out of them (if they do). This is true also for Rushdie’s two works for children, Haroun and the Sea of Stories (1991) and Luka and the Fire of Life (2010). In the former, the author introduces different worlds that are nevertheless interconnected, each with a reality of its own. Haroun, the child protagonist, travels from the world of apparent everyday reality (represented by planet Earth) to a Moon world called Kahani. The journey to, and on, the sea waters that cover a large portion of Kahani depicts an entirely different dimension of reality. Stories and dreams occurring in this land of fiction symbolize the healing power of the imaginary. This article proposes an analysis of this literary material using the Hindu worldview as a point of departure and elaborating on the different aspects of Rushdie's representation of the sea. |
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