"[Fiche] This paper will consider how Salman Rushdie’s novel Victory City is eminently framed by multiple acts of creation involving questions of agency, artistry and resistance. In his fifteenth novel, Rushdie tells the epic story of the young orphan girl Pampa Kampana who is endowed with magical powers by a goddess and who subsequently creates the city of Bisnaga, literally meaning “Victory City” – a city supposedly modelled on the 14th century-Hindu kingdom of Vijayanagar, South India. Patterns of production and creativity will be identified so as to determine how things come into being in the novel, and how this connects to notions of composition, design and theatricality, thus widening the reflexion to a metatextual level."
Par Marie-Gaëlle Drouet : Étudiante en Master 2 - ENS de Lyon.