Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism, 1981-1991Granta Books, 1991 - 432 pages Like George Orwell or Bruce Chatwin, Salman Rushdie observes and illuminates a stunning range of cultural, political, and intellectual issues crucial to our time. Imaginery Homelands is an important record of Rushdie's intellectual and personal odyssey, and the 75 essays collected here, written over the last ten years, cover an astonishing range of subjects. |
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... Africa as a place of mutual incomprehension , of struggling languages . But if one perceives that the issue is at bottom linguistic , might one not make some effort to learn black languages ? If such an idea has ever occurred to Rian ...
... Africa as a place of mutual incomprehension , of struggling languages . But if one perceives that the issue is at bottom linguistic , might one not make some effort to learn black languages ? If such an idea has ever occurred to Rian ...
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... Africa reaches us , most of the time , through a series of filters which , by reducing the vast continent to a cluster of emotive slogans , succeed in denying us any sense of complexity , context , truth . But then , as Nuruddin Farah ...
... Africa reaches us , most of the time , through a series of filters which , by reducing the vast continent to a cluster of emotive slogans , succeed in denying us any sense of complexity , context , truth . But then , as Nuruddin Farah ...
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... Africa , and he could fail to understand why Nadine Gordimer was irritated by his insistence on referring to Namibia as ' South West Africa ' . But he could also get things magnificently right , and the essay in this collection entitled ...
... Africa , and he could fail to understand why Nadine Gordimer was irritated by his insistence on referring to Namibia as ' South West Africa ' . But he could also get things magnificently right , and the essay in this collection entitled ...
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INTRODUCTION | 1 |
IMAGINARY HOMELANDS | 9 |
IN MIDNIGHTS CHILDREN | 22 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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