Posthumanism and Artificial Intelligence in Salman Rushdie’s Selected Novels

Abstract

This paper explores the intersection of post humanist theory with Salman Rushdie’s novels Quichotte and Midnight’s Children, examining how both works address important posthuman issues like the decentring of the human, the blurring of binary distinctions, and the revolutionary impact of ideology and technology.
Quichotte incorporates AI’s epistemological effect into its structure and themes, while Midnight’s Children uses Saleem Sinai’s fractured identity during political unrest to allegorize the posthuman situation. In an era characterized by algorithmic mediation, technological entanglement, and the breakdown of solid ideas of self and reality, the research contends that Rushdie’s writing provides a literary framework for comprehending posthuman identity.