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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... there you can see Rasta groundations , a mosque , Pentecostal halls , and Hindu , Jain and Buddhist places of worship . Many of Handsworth's songs are hymns of praise . But there's reggae , too ; there are toasters at blues dances , there ...
... there you can see Rasta groundations , a mosque , Pentecostal halls , and Hindu , Jain and Buddhist places of worship . Many of Handsworth's songs are hymns of praise . But there's reggae , too ; there are toasters at blues dances , there ...
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... there's ' no apparatus to deflect the guilt of the grunts . Those guys have been set adrift . They were simultaneously so innocent and evil out there , like Alden Pyle [ Greene's ' quiet American ' ] . There was no way to sort that out ...
... there's ' no apparatus to deflect the guilt of the grunts . Those guys have been set adrift . They were simultaneously so innocent and evil out there , like Alden Pyle [ Greene's ' quiet American ' ] . There was no way to sort that out ...
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... There's more passion in Carver ; there's more dispassion in Ford . Wildlife is a fine novel by a fine writer . At times it brought to mind David Byrne's movie about another American Nowheresville , True Stories , a movie which , like ...
... There's more passion in Carver ; there's more dispassion in Ford . Wildlife is a fine novel by a fine writer . At times it brought to mind David Byrne's movie about another American Nowheresville , True Stories , a movie which , like ...
Table des matières
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
IMAGINARY HOMELANDS 9 | 9 |
IN MIDNIGHTS CHILDREN | 22 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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