The Shapeless Self in Salman Rushdie’s Works
This article builds upon the assumption that an identity is an endless construction that is difficult to fix within a frame, however large it might be. In Salman Rushdie’s works, private and collective identities are groundless and ever shifting, trapped in a world shaped by historical dialectical r...
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2022
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| Online adgang: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Summary: | This article builds upon the assumption that an identity is an endless construction that is difficult to fix within a frame, however large it might be. In Salman Rushdie’s works, private and collective identities are groundless and ever shifting, trapped in a world shaped by historical dialectical relations inscribed in a circular movement. What emerges from Rushdie’s investigation of human identity is the complexity of “being” in a boundary-free world. His works transcend the narrow definition of this “state of being” and establish a destabilising shapeless self whose contours are blurred and metamorphous. |
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