The Political Imagination In Rushdie's Children's Novels

The political imagination in Rushdie's children's novels contains multiple political and cultural codes,and is rich in personal color and vanguard temperament,thus creating a new direction for political writing in children's literature.On the one hand,Rushdie boldly expresses and resists the existing political system and hegemonic discourse.His children's novels focus on central topics in postmodern cultural politics,such as identity politics and discourse politics.On the other hand,Rushdie attempts to use the idealistic political imagination to exert the corrective role of literary works in ideology and cultural expression.The writer's poetic ideas,political ideals,literary ideas,and ideological lines are clearly visible in the world of texts.Rushdie highlighted cultural identity and the rootless dilemma of self and country in reality in his novels.Harun,Luca and Rasheed all have mixed personality traits.They have experienced cultural division,identity dislocation and pursuit of self-identity.To this end,the author constructs an imaginary home by telling stories,and guides the protagonist to reshape and confirm the identity of the subject in an appropriate meaning system and discourse position,from rootlessness to self-identification.Diaspora gives Rushdie a unique perspective of observation.He regards the display of multiple cultures and challenges a single authority as the writer's duty.He breaks the "Eastern Imagination" in the vision of the empire with a non-authoritative narrative form.Through the construction-reconstruction of binary oppositions such as light/darkness,he separated the colonial other from the aphasia of staring.Through the transcendence of the western and eastern poetic traditions and the reappropriation of the Indian and English languages,Rushdie completes a subversion and remodeling of colonialist discourse in the "third space" of the "intermediate".The boundaries between fiction and reality,history and imagination are completely broken,political metaphors is hidden in the depths of the text by the author 's marvelous fantasy,culture and discourse gain a space for reinterpretation and reinterpretation.The reader could get rid of the manipulation and influence of the discourse of power,re-understand reality and the world from different perspectives.Rushdie 's children's novels have both cheerful childhood joy and profound political imagination.He has integrated his unique literary thinking,emotional experience and political attitude into the creation of the novel,so that the work has extremely strong heterogeneity,hybridity and richness,which greatly expands the expression space of children's literature,and also enables political imagination to have richer possibilities and speech dimensions in children's literature.