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IJLLL 2024 Vol.10(1): 114-117
DOI: 10.18178/IJLLL.2024.10.1.496

On the “Occidentalized Indianness” behind “Blue” Image in Midnight’s Children from the World Literature Perspective

Chenhui Tan * and Limin Li
School of Foreign Studies of Northwestern Polytechnical University, Shaanxi, China
Email: tch1999@mail.nwpu.edu.cn
*Corresponding author

Manuscript received August 14, 2023; revised September18, 2023; accepted November 13, 2023; published February 25, 2024

Abstract—With the traits of exoticism and assimilation in world literature, the image of color “blue” in Salman Rushdie’s novel Midnight’s Children presents the “hybridity” with extremely rich connotation. It is showed from aspects of material life, identity pursuit and religion reconsideration, which reveal the “Occidentalized Indianness” in postcolonial South Asian Subcontinent. It not only critically implies the influence from the colonial authority and western centralism, but also conveys a wish of return and adherence to the essence of “Indianness”, another form of world literature.

Keywords—blue, Midnight’s Children, occidentalized Indianness, world literature

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Cite:Chenhui Tan and Limin Li, "On the “Occidentalized Indianness” behind “Blue” Image in Midnight’s Children from the World Literature Perspective," International Journal of Languages, Literature and Linguistics vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 114-117, 2024.

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