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In the case of the Rushdie affair, the token that started the circulation of meaning that would surround the event was a postmodern novel. The movement of the circle of representation was thus not from the real real of a factual life-world but from the multilayered text of Rushdie’s novel, which effected performances in reality. Before I continue with an outline of the temporal unfolding of the Rushdie affair, I will therefore try to map how Rushdie’s deeply critical, but also deeply allegorical, text was transformed into the token of a belief war.
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Falkenhayner, N. (2014). Transnational Takeovers. In: Making the British Muslim. Europe in a Global Context. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137374950_2
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