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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... live in the world ? I do not propose to offer , prescriptively , any answers to these questions ; only to state that these are some of the issues with which each of us will have to come to terms . To turn my eyes outwards now , and to ...
... live in the world ? I do not propose to offer , prescriptively , any answers to these questions ; only to state that these are some of the issues with which each of us will have to come to terms . To turn my eyes outwards now , and to ...
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... live in slum housing get used with remarkable ease to the fact that others do . It is by now reasonably well known that councils all over the country are putting people into substandard B & B accommodation . The councils admit that this ...
... live in slum housing get used with remarkable ease to the fact that others do . It is by now reasonably well known that councils all over the country are putting people into substandard B & B accommodation . The councils admit that this ...
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... live in it , on either side of the new partition , more or less ignoring each other's existence . Berliners , it seems , like telling each other parables of the city and swearing that they are true stories . Mr Schneider's book The Wall ...
... live in it , on either side of the new partition , more or less ignoring each other's existence . Berliners , it seems , like telling each other parables of the city and swearing that they are true stories . Mr Schneider's book The Wall ...
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INTRODUCTION | 1 |
IMAGINARY HOMELANDS 9 | 9 |
IN MIDNIGHTS CHILDREN | 22 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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