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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Essays and Criticism, 1981-1991 Salman Rushdie. RIAN MALAN os Angeles , 1979. A young South African , Rian Malan , who has fled South Africa because ' I wouldn't carry a gun for apartheid , and because I wouldn't carry a gun against it ...
Essays and Criticism, 1981-1991 Salman Rushdie. RIAN MALAN os Angeles , 1979. A young South African , Rian Malan , who has fled South Africa because ' I wouldn't carry a gun for apartheid , and because I wouldn't carry a gun against it ...
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... Malan suggests , at which the Boers became Afrikaners , ' arrogant , xenophobic , and " full of blood " , as the Zulus say of tyrants . ' And he adds that nothing has changed , that ' it all leads us back , in the end , to Dawid Malan ...
... Malan suggests , at which the Boers became Afrikaners , ' arrogant , xenophobic , and " full of blood " , as the Zulus say of tyrants . ' And he adds that nothing has changed , that ' it all leads us back , in the end , to Dawid Malan ...
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... Malan is excellent on the still uncompleted war between the Zim - zims and Wararas ; but the main thrust of his book is its attempt to reach the heart of the South African tragedy by exploring ' tales of ordinary murder ' . Murder is ...
... Malan is excellent on the still uncompleted war between the Zim - zims and Wararas ; but the main thrust of his book is its attempt to reach the heart of the South African tragedy by exploring ' tales of ordinary murder ' . Murder is ...
Table des matières
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
IMAGINARY HOMELANDS | 9 |
IN MIDNIGHTS CHILDREN | 22 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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