| Salman Rushdie, a famous contemporary British Indian novelist and essayist,has published plenty of influential works. Midnight’s Children is generally regarded as one of his best novels and representatives. Great attention has been given to this novel ever since its publication in 1981. Studies from different perspectives like magic realism, postmodernism, post-colonialism have been conducted home and abroad with considerable findings and achievement.However, based on my research, there is still room for further study in above areas.Based on the mimicry and hybridity theories of HomiBhabha, this thesis not only analyses the mimicry in the social life, that in the political life and its aftermath, and the lack of resistance of some colonized characters, but also interprets the hybriditydiscourses in the characters’ identities and the narrative form of the novel. It explains the hybridity in the characters’ identities from the three generations of Saleem’s familyon one hand, and elaborates the mixed inheritance of both western and Indian narrative techniques and literary traditions on the other hand. From the perspective of mimicry and hybridity, this thesis hopes to provide a way of understanding for the work and explore the author’s creative intention on the postcolonial context. |
