Abstract
This article argues that Salman Rushdie's The Ground Beneath Her Feet is not so much a planetary novel as a creative passage to America. It aims to study how the author connects East and West by using the concept of metamorphosis to explain the mutation of identity after the end of empires. It explores the novel's theme of disorientation from personal, spatial, temporal, ideological and representational points of view and concludes that the disconcertingly filmic mode in which it is written bears witness to Rushdie's belief in the capacity of the cinema to save the novel from its fin de siècle crisis.
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