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Bachelor Thesis from the year 2014 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, LMU Munich, language: English, abstract: This bachelor thesis is about the role of women created by the author Salman Rushdie. It deals with the question if Rushdie is a supporter of womanhood or not. The first attempt to combine the name of the author Salman Rushdie with the words "woman" and "supporter" raises eyebrows. Often does the reader of Rushdie's works stumble over the use of crude language such as "whore", "hussy" or "sorceress" and tends to focus the attention on the male protagonist. To bring the mentioned terms together comprehensibly, it takes a closer look and careful reading between the lines. Rushdie has his own way of creating a special position for women in society and to grant the right to exist to subaltern women in his novels. This position is often claimed as a negative or indefinable one by critics of the author. Deepika Bahri for example describes Rushdie's representation of the subaltern as neither of great importance nor of none importance. By concentrating on and analyzing the female characters written by Rushdie this paper will examine if it is not actually a positive position. Throughout this dissertation a lot of Rushdie's publications will serve as primary literature. In the following explanation it will focus on the female characters in the novels "The Moor's Last Sigh", "Midnight's Children" and "The Enchantress of Florence". Moreover the essays "Abortion in India", "Crash: The Death of Princess Diana" and "The Assassination of Indira Gandhi" are going to be discussed. The term subaltern will refer to women in the following and here it is of course necessary to mention the famous article of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak "Can the Subaltern Speak?". It elucidates the representation of the subaltern woman in the western world. The Indian literary theorist is of the opinion that one who writes about subordinated people
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