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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... American presence in Vietnam is compared to the present- day Japanese ' invasion ' of the American economy . Dollars are compared to Vietnamese corpses . These comparisons tell us nothing much about Vietnam , Bloomingdale's , the ...
... American presence in Vietnam is compared to the present- day Japanese ' invasion ' of the American economy . Dollars are compared to Vietnamese corpses . These comparisons tell us nothing much about Vietnam , Bloomingdale's , the ...
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... American creationist scientist whose lectures were accompanied by a jolly slide show : when a slide of a chimpanzee came up , he'd say , ' Oops , that's my grandfather . ' Gish gave me the model for the character of Eugene Dumsday in ...
... American creationist scientist whose lectures were accompanied by a jolly slide show : when a slide of a chimpanzee came up , he'd say , ' Oops , that's my grandfather . ' Gish gave me the model for the character of Eugene Dumsday in ...
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... American history . The space race is only one subject which the thesis illuminates . In the last two decades many Americans have turned inwards in search of that new frontier . The enormous influences of psychiatry and psychotherapy can ...
... American history . The space race is only one subject which the thesis illuminates . In the last two decades many Americans have turned inwards in search of that new frontier . The enormous influences of psychiatry and psychotherapy can ...
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INTRODUCTION | 1 |
IMAGINARY HOMELANDS | 9 |
IN MIDNIGHTS CHILDREN | 22 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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