Open AccessFemale characters in the novel The Moor’s Last Sigh as the key element to revealing Indian identity
Author(s) -
Maria Obykhvist
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
accents and paradoxes of modern philology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2521-6481
DOI - 10.26565/2521-6481-2017-2-4
Subject(s) - element (criminal law) , identity (music) , indian english , key (lock) , globalization , front (military) , order (exchange) , history , reflexive pronoun , literature , aesthetics , sociology , gender studies , art , geography , political science , law , ecology , finance , meteorology , economics , biology
The article is dedicated to the analysis of female characters in the novel The Moor’s Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie. Our aim is to understand better the evolution of artistic images by highlighting and researching the means the author uses for revealing the «nature» and «socialization» of a woman. The novel appeals to the understanding of a woman’s place in the socio-historical processes of the modern world. The author reveals a woman’s identity which is formed under the influence of the globalization factors as well as other ones. India’s modern history becomes the background for the evolution of the female characters. Salamn Rushdie is an English writer of an Indian origin who reveals in front of a reader bright and unique India, while he himself is caught between two cultural worlds – his native Indian and acquired European. In order to reveal the evolution of female characters, we will scrutinize the way in which the author describes motherhood and love in their lives.