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Mirrors and Catoptric Reflections: Postcolonial Aspects of Homelessness in Two Novels by Salman Rushdie
ISSN: 2367 - 8585
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Mirrors and Catoptric Reflections: Postcolonial Aspects of Homelessness in Two Novels by Salman Rushdie
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ICC-0902
Publisher: Proglas St. Cyril And St. Methodius University Press
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IAA.ZONE/236759938585
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Abstract
Тhe article focuses on the distorting (catoptric) operation of the broken mirror in Rushdie’s articulation of migrant homelessness in two of his novels, The Satanic Verses and The Ground Beneath Her Feet. I explore the specular properties of air and the distorting effects it has on the protagonist’s itineraries and experience of home. I likewise observe how the aerial lens and its more limited technical counterpart – the photographic perspective – produce distorted images of the places the protagonists traverse in their migrations and in this optical intervention the positions of the metropolis and the colonies get blurred, undergo twinning or reversal.
