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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... writer who finds it absurd that South African writers are praised around the world for their ' courage ' , because she knows , as Camus knew , that courage is a value not of literature but of life . The literary value of these essays ...
... writer who finds it absurd that South African writers are praised around the world for their ' courage ' , because she knows , as Camus knew , that courage is a value not of literature but of life . The literary value of these essays ...
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Essays and Criticism, 1981-1991 Salman Rushdie. I am not the first writer to be persecuted by Islamic fundamentalism in the modern period ; among the greatest names so victimized are the Iranian writer Ahmad Kasravi , stabbed to death by ...
Essays and Criticism, 1981-1991 Salman Rushdie. I am not the first writer to be persecuted by Islamic fundamentalism in the modern period ; among the greatest names so victimized are the Iranian writer Ahmad Kasravi , stabbed to death by ...
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... writer to stand in any regimented line , is a quality novelists share with the Caped Crusaders of the comics , though they are only rarely capable of leaping tall buildings in a single stride . What is more , the writer is there , in ...
... writer to stand in any regimented line , is a quality novelists share with the Caped Crusaders of the comics , though they are only rarely capable of leaping tall buildings in a single stride . What is more , the writer is there , in ...
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INTRODUCTION | 1 |
IMAGINARY HOMELANDS 9 | 9 |
IN MIDNIGHTS CHILDREN | 22 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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