METAMORPHOSIS AND IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION IN SALMAN RUSHDIE’S THE SATANIC VERSE

Abstract

Metamorphic spaces (temporal, geographical and mental) produce metamorphic bodies and identities. Metamorphosis arises as a dynamic principle of survival in borderline zones. Its biological value, however, is transposed and reworked in fiction as a prodigious interruption of natural development, breaking of natural laws and establishing its own magical reality.

Keywords

• alter self
• borderline experience
• colonial identity
• migrancy
• postmodernism
• selfrepresentation
• transmutation