From the Periphery to the Center ——Women in Salman Rushdie's Novels

In shaping and representing power relations, gender has always been a favorite topic of postcolonial writers. In post colonial literature, relationship between male and female is often a metaphor of former colonies and western suzerains. Salman Rushdie, a diasporic writer, has also adopted this strategy in his novels. In his writing, the male characters lose the core position in sexual relations, retreating from the center to the edge while women, different from those passive, weak and dependent images in the traditional western literature, are from the periphery to the center.