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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... Indian academic delivered a paper on Indian culture that utterly ignored all minority communities . When questioned about this from the floor , the professor smiled benignly and allowed that of course India contained many diverse ...
... Indian academic delivered a paper on Indian culture that utterly ignored all minority communities . When questioned about this from the floor , the professor smiled benignly and allowed that of course India contained many diverse ...
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... Indian history , there never was such a creature as a united India . Nobody ever managed to rule the whole place , not the Mughals , not the British . And then , that midnight , the thing that had never existed was suddenly ' free ...
... Indian history , there never was such a creature as a united India . Nobody ever managed to rule the whole place , not the Mughals , not the British . And then , that midnight , the thing that had never existed was suddenly ' free ...
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... India when India's biggest ally , Russia , is sitting on your other frontier ... At any rate , the question remains : if the situation in India continues to deteriorate , will Rajiv's thoughts turn once again to war ? One can only hope ...
... India when India's biggest ally , Russia , is sitting on your other frontier ... At any rate , the question remains : if the situation in India continues to deteriorate , will Rajiv's thoughts turn once again to war ? One can only hope ...
Table des matières
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
IMAGINARY HOMELANDS 9 | 9 |
IN MIDNIGHTS CHILDREN | 22 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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