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@article{190876,
        author = {Ashik Ahmed},
        title = {Between History and Myth: Historiographic Metafiction in Midnight’s Children},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2026},
        volume = {12},
        number = {8},
        pages = {6369-6371},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=190876},
        abstract = {Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children (1981) occupies a central position in postmodern and postcolonial literary studies for its radical reimagining of history through fiction. This research paper offers an extended, in-depth analysis of the novel as a major work of historiographic metafiction, a narrative mode that simultaneously represents historical events and interrogates the epistemological foundations of historical knowledge. Drawing upon the theoretical insights of Linda Hutcheon, Homi K. Bhabha, Jean-François Lyotard, and other postmodern critics, the paper argues that Rushdie deliberately situates his narrative between history and myth in order to dismantle the authority of official historiography and foreground memory, imagination, and storytelling as alternative modes of historical understanding. Through sustained close reading, textual quotations, and critical engagement, this study demonstrates how Midnight’s Children transforms Indian history into a plural, contested, and deeply human narrative shaped by fragmentation, hybridity, and political resistance.},
        keywords = {Historiographic Metafiction, Postmodernism, History, Myth, Memory, Salman Rushdie, Magic Realism, Postcolonialism},
        month = {January},
        }