The Chutneyfication of History: Salman Rushdie, Michael Ondaatje, Bharati Mukherjee and the Postcolonial Debate

by Mita Banerjee

Colonizers are driven into a state of panic by the circulation of a 'humble' chapati; a young girl's setting her family's shoes on fire seems comparable to a nuclear attack; a sleepwalker kills two hundred and eighteen turkeys just to be rid of them. Are these events of historical significancei The works of Salman Rushdie, Michael Ondaatje, and Bharati Mukherjee seem to suggest that this question might be answered in the affirmative. The anecdote...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3825314049
• ISBN13: 9783825314040
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Universitatsverlag Winter
• Length: 314 Pages