... modern-day metafiction. Trying to put things in context, and indeed trying to figure out a root cause, requires a look at historical references as well as an understanding of the literary genre at hand. Salman Rushdie was so privileged as to receive a fatwa from the fundamentalist Islamic world because of his writing just a few years before the publication of Haroun and the ... . With this edict hovering over Rushdie's head Haroun and the Sea of Stories takes a more transient role in his literary time line and covertly addresses many issues in the literary genre of metafiction. On a fund...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate