Table of Contents:
  • About this volume ; Midnight's Children : more useful than the facts / Joel Kuortti ; Biography of Salman Rushdie / Joel Kuortti
  • Rushdie's global modernism / John J. Su
  • Under scrutiny : Midnight's Children and its critics / Joel Kuortti
  • 'America, the great attractor, whispered in my ears' : from Bombay to New York : mapping geopolitical shifts in Rushdie's fiction / Marianne Corrigan
  • From Salman Rushdie to Arundhati Roy : issues of continuity in Indian fiction in English / Anuradha Marwah
  • Nasal connections : the possibility of ethical deconstruction in Midnight's Children / Tuomas Huttunen
  • Faithful versus free : Padma and Saleem as competing translators / Jenni Ramone
  • Topographies of nationalism in Midnight's Children / Ágnes Györke
  • "A collective fiction" : the (de)construction of Nehruvian India in Midnight's Children / Raita Merivirta
  • Indian oral narrative in postmodern historiography : a reading of Midnight's Children / Madan M. Sarma
  • Bombay in Midnight's Children / Lotta Strandberg
  • Fictions of the self : the reader, the subject, and the text in Midnight's Children and The Satanic Verses / Liani Lochner
  • The play with the connotations of sexuality in Midnight's Children / Jūratė Radavičiūtė
  • The role of the women characters in the nature/nurture and optimism/pessimism questions in Midnight's Children / Celia Wallhead.