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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... faith . I am aware that this is asking a good deal . There has been too much name - calling . Muslims have been called savages and barbarians and worse . I , too , have received my share of invective . Yet I still believe - perhaps I ...
... faith . I am aware that this is asking a good deal . There has been too much name - calling . Muslims have been called savages and barbarians and worse . I , too , have received my share of invective . Yet I still believe - perhaps I ...
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... faith . ' If we write in such a way as to pre - judge such belief as in some way deluded or false , then are we not guilty of élitism , of imposing our world - view on the masses ? ' asks one of its Indian characters . Yet the novel ...
... faith . ' If we write in such a way as to pre - judge such belief as in some way deluded or false , then are we not guilty of élitism , of imposing our world - view on the masses ? ' asks one of its Indian characters . Yet the novel ...
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... faith and doubt . Gibreel's most painful dreams , the ones at the centre of the controversy , depict the birth and growth of a religion something like Islam , in a magical city of sand ... faith back into the condition 398 IN GOOD FAITH.
... faith and doubt . Gibreel's most painful dreams , the ones at the centre of the controversy , depict the birth and growth of a religion something like Islam , in a magical city of sand ... faith back into the condition 398 IN GOOD FAITH.
Table des matières
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
IMAGINARY HOMELANDS 9 | 9 |
IN MIDNIGHTS CHILDREN | 22 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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