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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... true that the text of this essay is deliberately polemical , and no doubt that upset the Howes and Tebbits . I make no apology for being angry about racial prejudice . But it is also true that the piece repeatedly insists that the ...
... true that the text of this essay is deliberately polemical , and no doubt that upset the Howes and Tebbits . I make no apology for being angry about racial prejudice . But it is also true that the piece repeatedly insists that the ...
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... true that the English - language literatures of England , Ireland and the USA are older than , for example , the Indian ; so it's possible that ' Commonwealth literature ' is no more than an ungainly name for the world's younger English ...
... true that the English - language literatures of England , Ireland and the USA are older than , for example , the Indian ; so it's possible that ' Commonwealth literature ' is no more than an ungainly name for the world's younger English ...
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... true for Karl Marx as it had been for Aristotle . It is apparently true no more . ' Nothing in Britain is these days permitted to be apolitical , ' Hugo Young tells us in a Guardian article accusing the Charter 88 campaign of being the ...
... true for Karl Marx as it had been for Aristotle . It is apparently true no more . ' Nothing in Britain is these days permitted to be apolitical , ' Hugo Young tells us in a Guardian article accusing the Charter 88 campaign of being the ...
Table des matières
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
IMAGINARY HOMELANDS 9 | 9 |
IN MIDNIGHTS CHILDREN | 22 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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