A Study of Cultural Oscillation in Salman Rushdie'sFury
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Abstract
Salman Rushdie in his novelFurymanifests the cultural oscillation by presenting
the protagonist's cultural instability and indeterminacy as the aftermaths of the contacts of
globalized culture. In the age of globalization, multiculturalism and migration, frequent
shift from one culture to another has become common phenomenon. This sort of cultural
shift causes dual position in which an individual or community remains culturally
oscillated. This work tries to prove how contact zone depicts globalized cultural identity
as a result an individual or community remains in the position of cultural oscillation.
Malik ,Who shift from London to New York detaches from his home and family
and immediately attaches with distinct cultural communities and at the end of the novel
he again unites with his family. This contact with the people of different cultural
communities such as Dubdub, Mila, Neela and others affects his cultural position. During
his trans-global journey, his interaction with different situations such as spatial,
occupational and relational causes cultural instability and indeterminacy due to which he
remains culturally oscillated.