Hi \ Story Telling in Salman Rushdie's Victory city

Abstract

The research entitled "Hi/story Telling in Salman Rushdie's Victory City" has been an academic study. This research is based on the review of a British-American writer of Indian origin Salman Rushdie's well recognized novel Victory City, which was published in 2023. The novel is a historiographic meta-fiction which narrate the history and story in fictitious way and makes mythical allusion through Sanskrit language. It has employed the qualitative research design with adequate descriptions, illustration, analysis and synthesizing. First, the book was minutely read, then proposal written and conceptualized for the research. It has also been reviewed the related reference materials from New Historicist perspective and Historiographic lens. This research is heavily based on the library research, desk review, online navigation and related site searching i.e. Jstor, google sites and the like. The novel starts with sad and gloomy picture in mythical way that two hundred and forty- seven years old, the blind poet, miracle workers and prophetess Pampa Kampana completes her immense narrative poem about Bisnaga, on last day of her life. The epic Jayaparajaya refers 'Victory and Defeat' was found in the heart of ruined Royal Enclosure buried in a clay pot which was sealed with wax. It was a message for future. The mix of the various approaches and strategies have made the novel unique in terms of hi/story telling which is tasty-reading. Finally, the novel gives the voice of equity and equality for all. It is concluded that the 'Words are different' with the key message. 'Words are the only victors'. Pampa admits in the last verse of her great epic 'Jayaparajaya'.