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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... dream - England's famous sense of tolerance and fair play , but of my social class , my freak fair skin and my ' English ' English accent . Take away any of these , and the story would have been very different . Because of course the dream ...
... dream - England's famous sense of tolerance and fair play , but of my social class , my freak fair skin and my ' English ' English accent . Take away any of these , and the story would have been very different . Because of course the dream ...
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... dream of adequacy . An optimistic dream . The great universal religions , by contrast , ask us to accept our inferiority to a non - corporeal , omnipresent , omnipotent supreme being , who is both our creator and judge . The word ...
... dream of adequacy . An optimistic dream . The great universal religions , by contrast , ask us to accept our inferiority to a non - corporeal , omnipresent , omnipotent supreme being , who is both our creator and judge . The word ...
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... dream of God . But that dream , today , is not a means of cancelling politics ; it ) does not and cannot turn back the clock . The religious revivals of the world are continuations of the political process by other means . At first ...
... dream of God . But that dream , today , is not a means of cancelling politics ; it ) does not and cannot turn back the clock . The religious revivals of the world are continuations of the political process by other means . At first ...
Table des matières
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
IMAGINARY HOMELANDS 9 | 9 |
IN MIDNIGHTS CHILDREN | 22 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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