From: L.J.Connell-AT-sussex.ac.uk (Liam Connell)
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 14:13:08 GMT
Subject: Re: joyce/Rushdie



> I am also interested in the cross over between postmodern 
and postcolonial
> outlooks.  I am specifically interested in Joyce's 
influence on Salman
> Rushdie.  This project  is also in its infancy so if anyone 
can help me run
> with this ball it would be much appreciated.


Is Joyce postmodern?  There certainly seems to be an argument 
to suggest that he is proto-post-colonial (sorry about  the 
convuluted phrasing, but I'm rather uncomfortable about the 
whole term post-colonial, if only because it seem a little 
premature).

Anyway, I think Aijiz Ahmad is interesting on linking Rushdie 
with Eliot in _In Theory: Nations Classes Literatures_ where 
he argues that the dislocation of Rushdie's _Midnight's 
Children_ is most reminiscent of Eliot's modernism.

Liam




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