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In his most controversial work, The Satanic Verses (1988), Rushdie criticizes discrimination against colored immigrants in British society where ethnic minorities have to be silenced. This paper addresses how Rushdie reveals in the novel the distorted representation of racial Others in white discursive practices. In addition, my arguments focus on the author's attempts to subvert the linguistic hegemony of mainstream British society.
In the work, Rushdie explains that the dominance of white class is backed up by the support of racist language. He demonstrates how the British media and authorities manipulate the images of immigrants by demystifying the conventional language that has been thought to be objective truth. Rushdie also sheds light on immigrant existence in British history by employing a variety of words that mirror the hybrid history between Britain and India. The hybridized English that the author employs in the novel, that is, Angrezi, presents an instrument to challenge the authority of white mainstream society.