Postmodern Paradigm and Salman Rushdie’S Fiction

The book highlights postmodern fiction and more so Rushdies fiction, which is concerned with:

1. A preoccupation with viability of systems and representations
2. The decentring of the subject and the inscription of multiple fictive selves
3. Narrative fragmentation, narrative reflexivity, and narratives which double-back on their own presuppositions
4. An open-ended play with formal divides challenging the presuppositions of literary realism
5. Abolition of the cultural divide between high and popular forms of culture, embracing all in a mlange
6. The displacement of the real by simulacra in Baudrillardian sense
7. Incredulity toward the metanarratives as Lyotard puts it