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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... idea of the nation . Forty years after a nationalist revolution , where could it be said to reside ? He said , ' To the devil with all that nationalism . I am an Indian because I am born here and I live here . So is everyone else of ...
... idea of the nation . Forty years after a nationalist revolution , where could it be said to reside ? He said , ' To the devil with all that nationalism . I am an Indian because I am born here and I live here . So is everyone else of ...
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... idea of a sociological organism moving calendrically through homogeneous , empty time is a precise analogue of the idea of the nation . ' This is important stuff for a novelist , because what we are being told is that the idea of ...
... idea of a sociological organism moving calendrically through homogeneous , empty time is a precise analogue of the idea of the nation . ' This is important stuff for a novelist , because what we are being told is that the idea of ...
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... ideas inextricably intertwined . In independent India , the idea of secular nationalism has a particular importance . It would not be an exaggeration to say that the survival of the State may depend upon it . ' We have to build the ...
... ideas inextricably intertwined . In independent India , the idea of secular nationalism has a particular importance . It would not be an exaggeration to say that the survival of the State may depend upon it . ' We have to build the ...
Table des matières
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
IMAGINARY HOMELANDS 9 | 9 |
IN MIDNIGHTS CHILDREN | 22 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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