PARADISE LOST AND THE NARRATION OF NATION IN SALMAN RUSHDIE’S MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN

Mayra Helena Alves Olalquiaga

doi:10.17851/1982-0739.14..135-144

Autores/as

Mayra Helena Alves Olalquiaga FALE-UFMG

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17851/1982-0739.14..135-144

Palabras clave:

Paradise lost, “paradise within”, Midnight’s children, nation

Resumen

This article proposes a study of the appropriations of John Milton’s Paradise lostin Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s children. Adapting Milton’s proposition of the “paradise within”, Rushdie explores new ways of viewing imperial national selfrepresentation and how post-colonial writing can relate to its constituting texts.

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Biografía del autor/a

Mayra Helena Alves Olalquiaga, FALE-UFMG

Mestre em Literatura de Expressão Inglesa

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HELGERSON, Richard. Forms of nationhood: the Elizabethan writing of England. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.

MILTON, John. Paradise lost. Ed. John Leonard. London: Penguin Classics, 200

RUSHDIE, Salman. Midnight’s children. New York: Penguin, 1980.

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