Salman Rushdie's Shame -- Themes Overview

• The Bizarre and the Miraculous in Rushdie's Fiction
• Magic Realism and Self-Conscious Writing in Waterland andShame
• Rushdie on Names, History, and Pakistan
• Rushdie on Roots, Rootlessness, Migration, on Being Between
• Shame as the Impetus for Stories: Rushdie, Swift & Ishiguro
• Rushdie, Ishiguro, and the Art of Story-Telling
• Dueling Stories in Rushdie and Ishiguro
• Shame-ful Premises: The Explosion of Purity in Rushdie's Shame
• Time, History, and Narrative in Rushdie's Shame
• Shame and Victmization in Rushdie and Mo
• Women and the Subject of Rushdie's Shame
• Women of Pakistan and Bangladesh
• Gender and Shame
• Women and Family Stories
• The Story and Storyteller in Shame
• Morality and Mirror Imagery
• Migration, Character, and Event
• Confronting America's Inanimate Presence (III): Shame
• Displacement in Shame