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Tables of Contents for Fictions to Live in
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface and Acknowledgements
9
2
Abreviations
11
2
Introduction: Narrative Versions
13
1
Commitment
13
1
Voice/s
14
2
Intertextuality
16
7
Allegories of Fiction
23
36
Haroun and the Sea of Stories: Where Do Stories Come From?
24
10
Grimus: ``Fictions where a man could live''
34
25
Questions of Intertextuality
34
2
Science Fiction and Allegory
36
2
The Gorfs, the Endimions, the Divine Game of Ordering
38
3
The Stone Rose
41
2
The Inner Dimensions, the Ion Eye, the Watercrystal, the Crystal of Potentialities
43
2
Misuse of the Stone Rose
45
2
Proper Use of the Stone Rose
47
12
``Resistance to Genealogy: Salman Rushdie's Homelands''
59
34
Grimus
60
6
A View of History
64
2
Midnight's Children: ``The illusion itself is reality''
66
27
Personal Story and History
66
4
The Problem of Identity
70
2
Political and Historical Aspects
72
3
A System of Knowledge
75
3
The Identity of the Writer
78
3
How Narration Shapes Reality
81
2
A Struggle for a Language of Representation
83
10
Shame, A Necklace of Stories
93
32
Insufficient imagination
93
2
Wrong Miracles
95
3
A Woman's Shame
98
4
Woman in the Veil
102
6
Sufiya's Story
108
3
A Necklace of Stories
111
14
Naming the Problem: The Satanic Verses
125
58
Naming the Problem
125
2
May I Introduce to You, Salman Rushdie!
127
7
Who am I?
134
13
Names at the Edge of the Language
147
9
Photographs of a voice
156
10
``To be born again''
166
17
``Here I stand'': The Moor's Last Sigh
183
42
Enter Monster
183
8
``Mad or bad?''
191
9
``Call it Palimpstine''
200
8
The Moor's Last Sigh
208
17
Final(ly) Fiction: Conclusion
225
12
Bibliography
237
18
Index
255