Interpret The Female Images Of Rushdie’s Midnight Children With The Poetic Consciousness Of Transcultural

Salman Rushdie(1947-) is a prominent master in contemporary British literary world, who is also an Indian-English writer with mixed-culture identity. The novel Midnight’s Children has established his literary reputation, which won the famous "British Booker Prize". In Midnight’s Children, the author created a series of characters whose personalities are bright and bold, and also different from traditional literary images of women. The purpose of this paper is to explore the female images in Midnight’s Children with the poetic consciousness of across-contexts, and to reveal woman’s image characteristics and rich connotation.According to the paper, the text is divided into five parts:The introduction briefly introduces Rushdie’s literary career and the research status at home and abroad. It emphasizes that the register of relevance between the author’s mixed-culture identity and female characters he created is rich in literary value and worth discussing.The first chapter stresses on reviewing and elucidating the gender dimension and connotations of the novel, especially from the point of view of feminist gaze theory in Western literature with combination of the meaningful "sheet holes" image and related scenario in Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children.The second chapter attempts to implement the female image with rasa (flavour) expression in the novel Midnight’s Children from the dimension of Indian rasa poetics in Oriental literary theory. The female images in this novel are full of karuna rasa, mixed with bibbatsa rasa, srngara rasa, and so on. They embody the author’s creative use of classical Indian rasa poetics, modern literary consciousness, and his original ideas and enthusiasm on rasa.The third chapter focuses on the theory of gender temperament construction, attempting to discuss the gender temperament and variation significance of the main characters. Rushdie shaped the characters who subvert the traditional gender temperament, reflecting the self-breakthroughs of man and woman. Man and woman in the novel show the liquidity and uncertainty of their own temperament so as to break the boundaries of masculinity and femininity. Two kinds of temperament contradict and unify each other, and embody the author’s political demands of attempting to establish a harmonious relationship.The fourth chapter is based on the above research contents, to review the deep connotation of Rushdie’s woman characters. On one hand, it points out that Rushdie affirmed the female self-consciousness by creating special female images, which is also an attempt of building a harmonious relationship. On the other hand, the mixed-culture identity and life circumstances of the author give the novel a mixed gender characteristic, also reflect the cultural psychology of the author. At the same time, it points out that Rushdie had limits on woman literature writing in this novel, under the patriarchal discourse control, women are not able to access the real liberation of body and mind.