Undermining the Traditional Usage of the Synecdoche of the Nose in Salman Rushdie’s Novel Midnight’s Children (original) (raw)

The article analyses the subversion of the traditional usage of the synecdoche of the nose in Salman Rushdie’s novel Midnight’s Children. The strategy of the play as proposed by Roland Barthes has been chosen for the interpretation of the synecdoche. Barthes suggests a postmodern interpretation of the play, highlighting the importance of the decentering of a postmodern text which determines the perception of the text in terms of the significations attributed to its elements. As a result of decentering, signs which compose a postmodern text are supposedly attributed an infinite number of meanings which do not necessarily correlate.KEY WORDS: postmodernism, subversion, traditional, meaning, Salman Rushdie, play, Roland Barthes, synecdoche.

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