Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism, 1981-1991Granta Books, 1991 - 432 pages Rushdie at his most candid, impassioned, and incisive--an important and moving record of one writer's intellectual and personal odyssey. These 75 essays demonstrate Rushdie's range and prophetic vision, as he focuses on his fellow writers, on films, and on the mine-strewn ground of race, politics and religion. |
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Essays and Criticism, 1981-1991 Salman Rushdie. ' COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE ' W DOES NOT EXIST " hen I was invited to speak at the 1983 English Studies Seminar in Cambridge , the lady from the British ... COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE' DOES NOT ...
Essays and Criticism, 1981-1991 Salman Rushdie. ' COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE ' W DOES NOT EXIST " hen I was invited to speak at the 1983 English Studies Seminar in Cambridge , the lady from the British ... COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE' DOES NOT ...
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... literature into a box and then more or less ignore it . At best , what is called ' Commonwealth literature ' is positioned below English literature ' proper ' - or , to come back to my friend the don , it places Eng . Lit. at the centre ...
... literature into a box and then more or less ignore it . At best , what is called ' Commonwealth literature ' is positioned below English literature ' proper ' - or , to come back to my friend the don , it places Eng . Lit. at the centre ...
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... writers claimed by ' Commonwealth literature ' deny that they have anything to do with it . I said that the concept of ' Commonwealth literature ' did disservice to some writers , leading to false readings of their work ; in India , I ...
... writers claimed by ' Commonwealth literature ' deny that they have anything to do with it . I said that the concept of ' Commonwealth literature ' did disservice to some writers , leading to false readings of their work ; in India , I ...
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INTRODUCTION | 1 |
IMAGINARY HOMELANDS 9 | 9 |
IN MIDNIGHTS CHILDREN | 22 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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