Revisiting the Elements of Postmodernism in Salman Rushdie’s Shame

Postmodern literature is thought to be typically anti-traditional and anti-foundationalist. It can said that the major body of postmodern have started from 1950s onwards. The literary features are metafiction, self-reflexivity, intertextuality, writerly text, hybridity, magical realism, foreshadowing, irony, parody, anti-novel, anti-hero, fabulation, surfiction, hyperreality, use language games etc. prominent themes in such as crisis identity, cultural experiences migrants their feeling alienation, general rootlessness. fiction also emphasizes disbelief God well conventional notions unified or coherent individual. Salman Rushdie has been studied researched a postcolonial writer there obvious his novels. But we study him writer. paper makes an attempt discuss concept meaningless life prevalent Rushdie’s Shame put forth