I had an 'ah ha' moment with the song that keeps coming up how-much-is-that-doggie-in-the-window (165,298)This seems to be satirical of a concept of love at a distance. Amina is in close proximity to the first example grappling with the dream of an "unnameable" husband. In the second occurrence it lies in proximity to reference to Crusoe (emblematic for colonial literature). In Rushdie's context I think it is making fun of the west's obsession with objectified and unreachable images from less developed parts of the world. Laika is also mentioned giving grounds to this premise because of Wests reaction to a dog being sent into space to die.
I do think that the characters are comic but I think I are something more, they are cartooned. The exaggerations of their features make them less life like and therefore more life like to interface with. Kind of a response to the "uncanny valley" that happens with excessive realism. Jonathan Swift does something like this with the his portrayals of the Irish.
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