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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... Britain encourages many Britons to turn their eyes nostalgically to the lost hour of their precedence . The recrudescence of imperialist ideology and the popularity of Raj fictions put one in mind of the phantom twitchings of an ...
... Britain encourages many Britons to turn their eyes nostalgically to the lost hour of their precedence . The recrudescence of imperialist ideology and the popularity of Raj fictions put one in mind of the phantom twitchings of an ...
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... Britain ; that it's not a peripheral minority affair . I believe that Britain is undergoing a critical phase of its post- colonial period , and this crisis is not simply economic or political . It's a crisis of the whole culture , of ...
... Britain ; that it's not a peripheral minority affair . I believe that Britain is undergoing a critical phase of its post- colonial period , and this crisis is not simply economic or political . It's a crisis of the whole culture , of ...
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... Britains are presently in retreat , even in disarray ; while nanny- Britain , straight - laced Victoria - reborn Britain , class - ridden know - your - place Britain , thin - lipped , jingoist Britain , is in charge . Dark goddesses ...
... Britains are presently in retreat , even in disarray ; while nanny- Britain , straight - laced Victoria - reborn Britain , class - ridden know - your - place Britain , thin - lipped , jingoist Britain , is in charge . Dark goddesses ...
Table des matières
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
IMAGINARY HOMELANDS | 9 |
IN MIDNIGHTS CHILDREN | 22 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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