Omar Khayyam Shakil

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Omar Khayyam Shakil is a central, symbolically charged character in Salman Rushdie’s novel "Shame," whose unusual birth and upbringing reflect the book’s themes of identity, history, and political allegory.

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Omar Khayyam Shakil canonical 2
Omar Khayyam 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf character in a novel
fictional character
literary character
appearsIn Shame
associatedTheme authoritarianism
family secrecy
personal vs. national history
political violence
public vs. private shame
associatedWith Shakil sisters
associatedWithAuthor Salman Rushdie
birthType unusual birth
countryOfFictionalSetting Pakistan
creator Salman Rushdie
familyName Shakil
fictionalUniverse Shame (novel)
firstAppearance Shame
firstPublicationDateOfWork 1983
genreOfWork magic realism
political novel
postcolonial literature
givenName Omar Khayyam Shakil self-linksurface differs
surface form: Omar Khayyam
languageOfWork English
literaryMovement postmodernism
literaryPeriod late 20th century fiction
literarySignificance major character in Salman Rushdie’s oeuvre
medium novel
nameAllusion Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam
surface form: Persian poet Omar Khayyam
narrativeFunction allegorical character
symbolic figure
narrativeRole protagonist
roleInWork central character
settingContext fictionalized Pakistan
symbolizes burden of history
collective shame
fractured identity
moral ambiguity
thematicAssociation guilt
history
identity
political allegory
postcolonial identity
shame
violence
upbringing unconventional upbringing

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Shame hasCharacter Omar Khayyam Shakil
Omar Khayyam Shakil givenName Omar Khayyam Shakil self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Omar Khayyam
Sufiya Zinobia connectedToCharacter Omar Khayyam Shakil