Genre

Midnight’s Children

by Salman Rushdie

Midnight’s Children: Genre 1 key example

Book 1: Hit-the-Spittoon
Explanation and Analysis:

Salman Rushdie combines the genres of magical realism, postmodernism, and postcolonialism in Midnight’s Children. In magical realist literature, the author weaves fantastical elements into the fabric of daily life, modifying the rules of time, physics, nature, and other aspects of reality as a method of critique. Magical realist literary techniques are often employed to present common-knowledge histories, events, and concepts through a new lens.