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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... once took part in a conference on modern writing at New .College , Oxford . Various novelists , myself included , were talking earnestly of such matters as the need for new ways of describing the world . Then the playwright Howard ...
... once took part in a conference on modern writing at New .College , Oxford . Various novelists , myself included , were talking earnestly of such matters as the need for new ways of describing the world . Then the playwright Howard ...
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... once the faintly defensive note that has crept into these last few remarks . The Indian writer , looking back at India , does so through guilt - tinted spectacles . ( I am of course , once more , talking about myself . ) I am speaking ...
... once the faintly defensive note that has crept into these last few remarks . The Indian writer , looking back at India , does so through guilt - tinted spectacles . ( I am of course , once more , talking about myself . ) I am speaking ...
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... once - grand ancestral home of Deven's fellow - lecturer , the Muslim Siddiqui — is a figure of the decline of the language and the culture for which he stands . The poet's very name , Nur , is ironic : the word means light , but it is ...
... once - grand ancestral home of Deven's fellow - lecturer , the Muslim Siddiqui — is a figure of the decline of the language and the culture for which he stands . The poet's very name , Nur , is ironic : the word means light , but it is ...
Table des matières
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
IMAGINARY HOMELANDS 9 | 9 |
IN MIDNIGHTS CHILDREN | 22 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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