“Fiction, History and an Ethic of Imagination in Midnight’s Children”
Nick Pumilia’s senior tutorial essay on Salmon Rushdie’s book examines and interrogates the critical commonplace that the novel exemplifies postmodern and/or post-colonial narrative agendas. Instead his essay explores an ethic of imagination that emerges from an imaginative act’s self-reflexive awareness of its own limitations and historical contingency. He was nominated for this prize in 2008 by Professor Anu Needham.