L315 Midnight's Children - Rushdie

Qualifies for WVU MFA and Creative Writing Certificate Credits (World Literature)

“Thus proving to me that I have been only the humblest of jugglers-with-facts; and that, in a country where the truth is what it is instructed to be, reality quite literally ceases to exist, so that everything becomes possible except what we are told is the case; and maybe this was the difference between my Indian childhood and Pakistani adolescence-that in the first I was beset by an infinity of alternative realities, while in the second I was adrift, disorientated, amid an equally infinite number of falsenesses, unrealities and lies.”  ~  Salman Rushdie

Classroom

Course Length: 8 weeks

Difficulty: (1-5): 4

Course Description: Students read Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children, participate in weekly topic discussions, and write a short response paper.

Required text: Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

Amazon

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Scribd.com

(Audiobook) https://www.scribd.com/audiobook/281641753/Midnight-s-Children

Online Reading

Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children: Connection between Magical Realism and Postcolonial Issues

http://www.ijee.org/yahoo_site_admin/assets/docs/27_L.265144232.pdf

Recommended text (many alternative resources are available online):

A Study Guide for Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children (Novels for Students)

by The Gale Group

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Print: https://amzn.to/2SQolYo

Kindle: https://amzn.to/2IVmyBC

Scribd.com

https://www.scribd.com/read/385751772/A-Study-Guide-for-Salman-Rushdie-s-Midnight-s-Children

Provided Text

V. S. Pritchett Review