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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... ' it repeats , ' only the ghosts of other stories . ' The trouble is , we aren't told the other stories . What we get is what we know from TV . Blacks as trouble ; blacks as victims . Here is a Rasta dodging the 115 HANDSWORTH SONGS.
... ' it repeats , ' only the ghosts of other stories . ' The trouble is , we aren't told the other stories . What we get is what we know from TV . Blacks as trouble ; blacks as victims . Here is a Rasta dodging the 115 HANDSWORTH SONGS.
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... drunkenness on these streets over three hundred times . Some nights they catch him trying to direct the traffic . It's a religious place , Handsworth . What was once a Methodist chapel is now one of many Sikh gurdwaras . 116 HANDSWORTH ...
... drunkenness on these streets over three hundred times . Some nights they catch him trying to direct the traffic . It's a religious place , Handsworth . What was once a Methodist chapel is now one of many Sikh gurdwaras . 116 HANDSWORTH ...
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... Handsworth's songs are hymns of praise . But there's reggae , too ; there are toasters at blues dances , there are Punjabi ghazals and Two Tone bands . These days , the kids in Handsworth like to dance the Wobbler . And some of its ...
... Handsworth's songs are hymns of praise . But there's reggae , too ; there are toasters at blues dances , there are Punjabi ghazals and Two Tone bands . These days , the kids in Handsworth like to dance the Wobbler . And some of its ...
Table des matières
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
IMAGINARY HOMELANDS | 9 |
IN MIDNIGHTS CHILDREN | 22 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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