THE SOCIAL PARADIGM AND DIASPORA IN THE NOVELS: SALMAN RUSHDIE

The social mechanisms individuals use to understand themselves as part of a social group. Because different socio-cultural and literary perspectives have conflicting notions of “self,” whether reality is determined culturally, politically, or both becomes important to evaluate how these views are presented and represented through voices in novel form. The paper looks at the ways Salman Rushdie approaches and views identity as mediated and misrepresented by socio-political and cultural institutions of power in his novels. It becomes convenient for educational systems, political advocates, and custodians of culture whose logic is… Oppression, regardless of the corrosive attitudes and practices it engenders, is expected and almost acceptable as human behaviour. It should come as no surprise to writers and scholars that these behaviours find adequate spaces to incubate; advances and disciplines in the technological field being no exception. The circumstances appear to provide profitable situations for power, where a critical awareness of the destruction to ourselves and the environment is ignored. It is not in the interest of the oppressive forces and those in the dominant position in social hierarchy to affect or put into practice critical perspectives. Rather, the domestic and public realities of those lowest on the social strata, and the existence of stratums, are likely. This cultural struggle and misunderstanding of identity might be the case simply because it is through cultural and political tensions that these identities are formed and fixed. The point here is that what is considered labelled identity might actually be social reproductions of attitudes and behaviours that are designed to culturally and politically disrupt. In light of this socially divisive way of constructing identities in opposition to one another, the question becomes how people develop a new self-critical and socially conscious attitude toward the normal cultural practices. Keywords : Culture, perspectives, behavior, environment, considered