Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991Penguin Publishing Group, 1992 - 439 pages “Read every page of this book; better still, re-read them. The invocation means no hardship, since every true reader must surely be captivated by Rushdie’s masterful invention and ease, the flow of wit and insight and passion. How literature of the highest order can serve the interests of our common humanity is freshly illustrated here: a defence of his past, a promise for the future, and a surrender to nobody or nothing whatever except his own all-powerful imagination.”-Michael Foot, Observer Salman Rushdie’s Imaginary Homelands is an important record of one writer’s intellectual and personal odyssey. The seventy essays collected here, written over the last ten years, cover an astonishing range of subjects –the literature of the received masters and of Rushdie’s contemporaries; the politics of colonialism and the ironies of culture; film, politicians, the Labour Party, religious fundamentalism in America, racial prejudice; and the preciousness of the imagination and of free expression. For this paperback edition, the author has written a new essay to mark the third anniversary of the fatwa. |
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... Kipling . I wanted him to be played by an Indian actor as well as an English one , to speak Hindi in some scenes and English in others . After all , when the child Rudyard was admitted to his parents ... Kipling had maintained 74 KIPLING.
... Kipling . I wanted him to be played by an Indian actor as well as an English one , to speak Hindi in some scenes and English in others . After all , when the child Rudyard was admitted to his parents ... Kipling had maintained 74 KIPLING.
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... Kipling knows better . ' It [ India ] will never stand alone . ' • But there is the Indian actor , too ; Ruddy Baba as well as Kipling Sahib . And it is on account of this fellow that Kipling remains so popular in India . This ...
... Kipling knows better . ' It [ India ] will never stand alone . ' • But there is the Indian actor , too ; Ruddy Baba as well as Kipling Sahib . And it is on account of this fellow that Kipling remains so popular in India . This ...
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... Kipling lets them . For the problem of condescension remains . Kipling could never have dedicated a story to the ' natives ' as he did to ' T. Atkins ' , after all . And if the tone of Soldiers Three seems patronizing at times , in In ...
... Kipling lets them . For the problem of condescension remains . Kipling could never have dedicated a story to the ' natives ' as he did to ' T. Atkins ' , after all . And if the tone of Soldiers Three seems patronizing at times , in In ...
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