Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-238) and index.

About this volume ; Midnight's Children : more useful than the facts / Joel Kuortti ; Biography of Salman Rushdie / Joel Kuortti -- Rushdie's global modernism / John J. Su -- Under scrutiny : Midnight's Children and its critics / Joel Kuortti -- 'America, the great attractor, whispered in my ears' : from Bombay to New York : mapping geopolitical shifts in Rushdie's fiction / Marianne Corrigan -- From Salman Rushdie to Arundhati Roy : issues of continuity in Indian fiction in English / Anuradha Marwah -- Nasal connections : the possibility of ethical deconstruction in Midnight's Children / Tuomas Huttunen -- Faithful versus free : Padma and Saleem as competing translators / Jenni Ramone -- Topographies of nationalism in Midnight's Children / Ágnes Györke -- "A collective fiction" : the (de)construction of Nehruvian India in Midnight's Children / Raita Merivirta -- Indian oral narrative in postmodern historiography : a reading of Midnight's Children / Madan M. Sarma -- Bombay in Midnight's Children / Lotta Strandberg -- Fictions of the self : the reader, the subject, and the text in Midnight's Children and The Satanic Verses / Liani Lochner -- The play with the connotations of sexuality in Midnight's Children / Jūratė Radavičiūtė -- The role of the women characters in the nature/nurture and optimism/pessimism questions in Midnight's Children / Celia Wallhead.