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This paper reviews Salmon Rushdie's post modern "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", which offers a meta-narrative commentary on fiction and truth.
Written in 2005; 1,414 words; 0 source;
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Paper Summary:
This paper explains that, by varying his use of language, by critiquing the desire for one version of reality and by showing the unity that speech brings about in his "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", Rushdie establishes story-telling as a means to represent the different realities in the world and undermines the authenticity of facts, suggesting the impossibility of absolute truth. The author points out that the heavy presence in the novel of foreign language globalizes the tale: Many names in the novel are actually Hindustani words whose meaning reveals a second degree to the character, "Khattam-Shud", for example, which means "completely finished" or "Kosh-Mar" which phonetically resembles cauchemar, the French word for "nightmare" as well as Kashmir, the site of conflict between India and Pakistan. The paper relates that "Haroun" can be read on two levels, as a fanciful children's folktale or a post-modernist comment on the importance of fiction, providing two ways of seeing the work.
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""Haroun" is a truly worldly book for, though written in English, it incorporates different dialects and even different languages into the text. The novel draws upon Indian, American, and British idioms and speech, creating a hodgepodge of English that animates the characters' dialogue. Snooty Buttoo speaks Indian English when he says, "you will please to provide up-beat sagas only,"(49) whereas Iff uses American idioms, saying "no can do" and "no way, Jose"(59). The different dialects do more than give character depth, however, for they remind us of the number of English dialects, no one of which can properly claim correctness. In "Haroun", English avoids being strictly defined, allowing a richness of language diversity that can serve as a model for story-telling: by embracing different versions (in this case, of English) one enriches the work and provides a more authentic portrayal of a wide-ranging language."
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dialects realities globalizes folktale post-modernist
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