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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... novel wear toy devil - horns proudly , as an assertion of pride in identity , so the novel proudly wears its demonic title . The purpose is not to suggest that the Qur'an is written by the devil ; it is to attempt the sort of act of ...
... novel wear toy devil - horns proudly , as an assertion of pride in identity , so the novel proudly wears its demonic title . The purpose is not to suggest that the Qur'an is written by the devil ; it is to attempt the sort of act of ...
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... novel has always been about the way in which different languages , values and narratives quarrel , and about the shifting relations between them , which are relations of power . The novel does not seek to establish a privileged language ...
... novel has always been about the way in which different languages , values and narratives quarrel , and about the shifting relations between them , which are relations of power . The novel does not seek to establish a privileged language ...
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... novel . This ' secret identity ' of writer and reader is the novel form's greatest and most subversive gift . And this , finally , is why I elevate the novel above other forms , why it has always been , and remains , my first love : not ...
... novel . This ' secret identity ' of writer and reader is the novel form's greatest and most subversive gift . And this , finally , is why I elevate the novel above other forms , why it has always been , and remains , my first love : not ...
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