The document discusses narrative techniques in Salman Rushdie's novel Midnight's Children, including: 1) Time lapses that switch between past, present, and future through flashbacks and mixtures of tenses, disturbing the flow between narrator Saleem and the character Saleem. 2) The use of language, including Indian contextual words, pidgin, creole, and allusions. 3) The point of view claims to be omniscient but is actually a first person narrative that moves through time, place and action. 4) Apocalyptic narratives that are linked to ideas of nationalism, with elements like "Abracadabra" possessing apocalyptic connotations

2. MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN

4. Time Lapses as found in Midnight’s Children
Switching from present to past and from
past to future.
Including flashbacks, mixture of tenses
and others.
Disturb the flow of the narrator; gap
between Saleem the narrator and Saleem
the character.
Example: * thirty two years before as present.
(Chapter-1)
* grandfather Adam Aziz’s existence lies
along with his contemporaries, from present
to past. (Chapter-2)
Narrator makes us move by taking us in
course of time, place and action.

5. “Language” in a narrative
“Language in Midnight’s
Children-
Structure of language.
Indian contextual words.
Pidgin and Creole.
Interesting words like
Godknowswhat, Whatitsname etc.
Use of allusions.
English within “Appropriation”.

6. Self Portrait with Monkey El Peluquero Zurdo (1949)
(1940) by Frida Kahlo by Emilio Baz Viaud

7.   the blend of realityand fantasy so that the
distinction between the two is erased
 transformation of the common and
everyday into the awesome and unreal
 elements of dreams, fairy tales, or
mythology combined with the everyday
 the frame or surface of the work may be
conventionally realistic.
 have a strong narrative drive.

8. Beginning of the novel
Reflection of
postcolonial culture of
India.
Language of Saleem’s
Narrative
Melodramatic
Switching of Saleem and
Shiva by Mary Pereira

9. Point of view as found in Salman Rushdie‘s Midnight's
Children
moving in course of time, place and action
first person narrative
claims omniscient narrative
Frank Kermode: Concordance
coherence with moments in the past and
future

10. What is Apocalyptic Narrative?
Apocalyptic Narrative as one of the
aspects in the narrative technique
as found in Salman Rushdie’s
Midnight’s Children.
Apocalyptic Narrative and Idea of
Nationalism.
“Abracadabra” possess lots
of apocalyptic connotations.
Example: Saleem, “I had been mysteriously handcuffed to history,
my destiny indissolubly chained to those of my country.”