• Sunita Pattanaik Mohanty
• Dr. Samir Khan

This paper is an attempt to read the corporeal dimension of Salman Rushdie’s famous novel Midnight’s Children. This paper would examine how Salman Rushdie’s novel reproduces the strategies by which a crucial phase of the history of the sub-continent is represented through the ‘body’, and it goes on to examine how Mistry deals with issues like marginality and resistance. Such a reading is framed in the Bakhtinian idea of the subversive “carnival.” The paper would examine how this carnival played on the site of the body problematizes the totalizing structure historiography and reveals the repressive and degenerating state of the nation and postcolonial Indian body politic.

Salman Rushdie, Micheal Baktin, Midnight’s Children, Rabelaisian way, postcolonial novels.

"Clowning Wisely the Rabelaisian Way: Bakhtinian Carnival – in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.333-335, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1908990.pdf

"Clowning Wisely the Rabelaisian Way: Bakhtinian Carnival – in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp333-335, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1908990.pdf