Globalization and Cultural Disjunction in Selected Novels by Salman Rushdie

Abstract

This study attends to the ways globalization causes different kinds of disjunction ranging from cultural cleavage to rifts in the human psyche due to a number of reasons especially commodification, terrorism and the global media spectacle. This thesis aims at tracing the signs of cultural disjunction in three of Salman Rushdie’s novels: The Ground Beneath her Feet (1999), Fury (2001) and Shalimar the Clown (2005). Through an analysis of these three novels, this thesis investigates the relationship between globalization and cultural disjunction and offers clues for bypassing disjunction in the present globalized world.