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• W1854464811 abstract "This article undertakes an investigation of the figure of the artist in the fiction of Salman Rushdie. That most of his novels pivot around such a figure is surely significant, as is the crucial importance of the city (of Bombay) in the formulation and development of their artistic credos and personae. (1) The postcolonial urban chronotope in and of which Rushdie writes is emblematic of the deep fissures and contradictions marking a third-world terrain. A study of the artist-figure in such a setting, as, indeed, the narrative requirement for one, is deeply revelatory. An analysis of the engagement between the artist and the city can, I argue, uncover the aporias of seizing upon the third-world city as artistic material, and prise open questions of representation, representability, individual subject-positions, and class-divides. The modalities, aspirations, and limitations of these arguably self-reflexive engagements with the city can tell as much about the artist in question as about the city from which her/his art is inseparable. (2) To a large extent, the artist becomes the prism, as well as the means, through which the city is negotiated in Rushdie's writings. As figures whose vocation allows them the artistic license to enter, probe, and represent the multifarious aspects of the life of the city, Rushdie's artists evince in their persons as well as in their art many of the contradictions that constitute the terrain of the city. Focusing on the narrator/writer Saleem in Midnight's Children, the photographer Rai in The Ground Beneath Her Feet, and the painter Aurora in The Moor's Last Sigh, this article demonstrates how the modernist (self-)conception of the artist as a somehow de-classed, detached, free-floating figure is immediately and irrevocably shattered in the fractured, conflicted terrain of the postcolonial city. I propose that the figure of the artist is the indispensable means by which Rushdie can begin to map the vastly disparate geographies within the postcolonial city of Bombay. The strategic importance of this figure perhaps explains their appearance is all of Rushdie's. Belonging, almost without exception, to the leisured upper-class crust of society, his artist-protagonists acquire, through the exercise of their art, an alibi for entering zones of the city that they would, under ordinary circumstances, never have reason to encounter at first-hand. Rushdie's narrators pride themselves on their ability to be all-inclusive and representative of the teeming multitudinousness of the postcolonial city. In more than one interview, Rushdie talks of his need for adequate narrative forms that would convey the plural, multiple possibilities that the city of Bombay generates. In order for him to be able to write comprehensively about the multi-faceted, multi-layered realities of a third world metropolis, it is necessary for his protagonists to have easy and, in terms of the plot, justifiable cause for entering into them. This requirement is, however, a highly difficult one to meet for the sheltered, upper class, babalog protagonists of Rushdie's novels. Their class position determines their day-to-day itineraries along fixed, narrowly defined paths which would, normally speaking, never take them to slums, working class neighborhoods, lower-end suburbs, or the underworld; areas that nevertheless constitute the contemporary third world city as much as do its civic institutions like schools, offices, libraries and museums. It is here that the figure of the artist, along with the narrative strategy of magic realism, comes in handy. The only reason why Aurora, and through her the reader, has access to the stifled lives of the striking dock workers is because she goes looking for images from which to paint her chipkali, (3) social-realist pictures. The only reason Saleem finds even a temporary home in the magicians' ghetto is because of his earlier encounter with Parvati through his inner ear radio. …" @default.
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• W1854464811 title "Art and the City: Salman Rushdie and His Artists" @default.
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