Postmodern Paradigm and Salman Rushdie's Fiction

<p>The book highlights that postmodern fiction and more so Rushdie’s fiction is concerned with: <br />1. A preoccupation with viability of systems and representations. <br />2. The decentring of the subject and the inscription of multiple fictive selves. <br />3. Narrative fragmentation narrative reflexivity and narratives which doubleback on their own pre-suppositions. <br />4. An open-ended play with formal divides challenging the pre-suppositions of literary realism. <br />5. Abolition of the cultural divide between high and popular forms of culture embracing all in a mélange. <br />6. The displacement of the real by simulacra in Baudrillardian sense. <br />7. Incredulity towards the meta-narratives as Lyotard puts it.</p>