Looking Rushdie's homeland through the lens of Postcolonial theory

Abstract

The concept of India typically refers to a large body of people united by common factors such as history, culture, language, or territory. It often encompasses a shared sense of identity and belongingness among its members. Literature can't be limited to the boundaries of a nation, culture too. Literary piece written in English from different countries regarded as one literature that is English. At the same time literary piece written in different languages of a geographical boundary is regarded as literature of that nation because of the uniformity, matter of choice of themes. It is said that nation is an imagined community belonging to a particular geographical boundary as we find in Salman Rushdie's Midnight’s Children. We can see that Saleem Sinai can connect with the children of midnight through his sensory power. Indians, inhabiting in America, creates maholla or locality where they feel indianness within the geographical boundaries of America. Hence, National identity is an emotional expression.