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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... 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 , ' lands a job writing rock'n'roll reviews for a small music magazine . He is in the ...
... 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 , ' lands a job writing rock'n'roll reviews for a small music magazine . He is in the ...
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... South Africa . In Malan's pages , blacks and whites go jolling ( ' a very important South African concept , connoting kamikaze debaucheries ' ) , indulging in ' drank , dagga , dobbel en vok ' - ' drink , dope , dice and fucking ...
... South Africa . In Malan's pages , blacks and whites go jolling ( ' a very important South African concept , connoting kamikaze debaucheries ' ) , indulging in ' drank , dagga , dobbel en vok ' - ' drink , dope , dice and fucking ...
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... South African tragedy by exploring ' tales of ordinary murder ' . Murder is different in South Africa , Malan says . In most parts of the world , murder is an intimate crime ; killers and victims are usually well known to each other ...
... South African tragedy by exploring ' tales of ordinary murder ' . Murder is different in South Africa , Malan says . In most parts of the world , murder is an intimate crime ; killers and victims are usually well known to each other ...
Table des matières
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
IMAGINARY HOMELANDS | 9 |
IN MIDNIGHTS CHILDREN | 22 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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