Preface -- Introduction : creating new discourses from old -- 2. Women's voices and women's space in Assia Djebar's L'Amour, la fantasia -- 3. Tahar Ben Jelloun's Sandchild : voiceless narratives, placeless places -- 4. "At the threshold of the untranslatable" : Love in two languages of Abdelkebir Khatibi -- 5. The view from underneath : Salman Rushdie's Satanic verses -- Concluding : breaches and forgotten openings