Roots of Terrorism in Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie
Roots of Terrorism in the novel Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie
Postmodernism is a concept that can be defined as the direct outcome of this modern Post-Colonial world, a world that has been witness to mass migration, cross-cultural conflict and amalgamation of various cultures into a hybrid multicultural society. Terrorism, the unofficial use of violence and intimidation in the attempt to gain the political aims of selfishness is the main fold of Post-modernism. Salman Rushdie’s fictions borrow a lot of ideas evident to this trend of Pachigam.
Today’s world is globalized where borders have ceased to exist. All concepts on conventionality and rules are broken and new ones created to give expression to this new phenomenon of the rules breaking and free world. The term Post-Colonialism refers to the subjects to the various connotations. It is the term of reference to describe and dissect critically the new literatures of the world. This concept can be a direct outcome of the modern world, a world that has been witness to mass-migration, cross-culture encounter and the mixing of various cultures into a hybrid multicultural society. Post-Colonialism is but a legacy of our colonial past, a legacy of the dominance and suppression of the colonized by the colonizer that gives way to de-colonization after the second world war. Art and Literature of this modern world also reflects this as in the fictions of Salman Rushdie.
Salman Rushdie’s novel Shalimar the Clown voices the concept of a borderless world. This novel is an example of how the contemporary postcolonial novel debates Terrorism, the neo –imperialist strategies of post-war. Critics argue that Shalimar the Clown reroutes postcolonial concerns to highlight the destructive forces of globalization and terrorism. The plot links their different stories and geographies, suggesting that in a narrative of globalization and international terrorist characters must think of their existence in relation to each
Postmodernism is a concept that can be defined as the direct outcome of this modern Post-Colonial world, a world that has been witness to mass migration, cross-cultural conflict and amalgamation of various cultures into a hybrid multicultural society. Terrorism, the unofficial use of violence and intimidation in the attempt to gain the political aims of selfishness is the main fold of Post-modernism. Salman Rushdie’s fictions borrow a lot of ideas evident to this trend of Pachigam.
Today’s world is globalized where borders have ceased to exist. All concepts on conventionality and rules are broken and new ones created to give expression to this new phenomenon of the rules breaking and free world. The term Post-Colonialism refers to the subjects to the various connotations. It is the term of reference to describe and dissect critically the new literatures of the world. This concept can be a direct outcome of the modern world, a world that has been witness to mass-migration, cross-culture encounter and the mixing of various cultures into a hybrid multicultural society. Post-Colonialism is but a legacy of our colonial past, a legacy of the dominance and suppression of the colonized by the colonizer that gives way to de-colonization after the second world war. Art and Literature of this modern world also reflects this as in the fictions of Salman Rushdie.
Salman Rushdie’s novel Shalimar the Clown voices the concept of a borderless world. This novel is an example of how the contemporary postcolonial novel debates Terrorism, the neo –imperialist strategies of post-war. Critics argue that Shalimar the Clown reroutes postcolonial concerns to highlight the destructive forces of globalization and terrorism. The plot links their different stories and geographies, suggesting that in a narrative of globalization and international terrorist characters must think of their existence in relation to each