Umaru musa yaradua biography of william shakespeare
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Mustapha Bala Ruma
Exploring Historical Fiction, Memory, and Identity in Salman Rushdie's MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN
JOLLS, 2025
This paper explores the intersection of identity, history, and memory in Salman Rushdie's 1981 no... more This paper explores the intersection of identity, history, and memory in Salman Rushdie's 1981 novel Midnight's Children. The paper explores how Rushdie created a central character that uses the complementary roles of history and memory to forge an identity that is at once personal and communal. In order to achieve this objective, the paper uses postmodern historiography as its theoretical framework to examine how Rushdie fuses the history of Indian independence with that of the central character, Saleem Sinai through the deployment of an ingenious narrative technique of parallelism. In this regard, we see how memory is used to narrate the stories of the life of Saleem in tandem with that of the emergence of an independent Indian nation. The two histories are simultaneously narrated based on fragmented recollections from memory. Consequently, it becomes difficult to separate the personal from the public, and fact from fiction in the narrative. In the end, the identity of Saleem Sinai is fused with that of the postcolonial Indi
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William Shakespeare was indubitably the best playwright that ever lived. What is not clear is whether he also acted to complement his gift of play writing. What is the essence of drama? It is to make real the internal constructions of the mind. It is used to entertain, educate and also to deceive. Actors wear false personalities on the stage to play characters that are not originally theirs and to hide their real identities. William Shakespeare never knew that his plays would become so popular and powerful as to attract such a wide readership. His plays made him in death what he was not in life.
| Nigeria President Olusegun Obasanjo -1999 -2007 |
Professor Wole Soyinka is and remains one of the best playwrights in Africa. He is for now the only Nigerian to have won the Nobel Prize in Literature. There are also other playwrights like Ola Rotimi and Zulu Sofola who have enlivened and enlightened the world with their works of play. Of course, drama is a part and parcel of mankind and has always unfolded in God’s relationship with his people. Lest I forget, God is the first playwright. Think of the story of Creation. Think of the story of The Fall of man. Think also of the drama of salvation of man through Jesus
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