"I'm telling you stories, trust me."

Abstract

In this paper, my aim is to analyze Salman Rushdie’s Haroun from the point of view of tales and stories narrated. I intend to compare and contrast this work with The Satanic Verses, since stories and tales and the notion of intertextuality can be highlighted in that novel as well. [...] Postmodernism tends to reject the idea of newness while in 4 both Rushdie’s and Winterson’s version, newness is always created by the fusion of stories and histories. This process of fusion is manifested in the trope of juggling which can be observed in all three novels that I intend to analyze in my paper.