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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... dream - England's famous sense of tolerance and fair play , but of my social class , my freak fair skin and my ' English ' English accent . Take away any of these , and the story would have been very different . Because of course the dream ...
... dream - England's famous sense of tolerance and fair play , but of my social class , my freak fair skin and my ' English ' English accent . Take away any of these , and the story would have been very different . Because of course the dream ...
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... dream decays , we cannot quite bring ourselves to leave it , to awake . In this version - the dynasty as collective dream- Jawaharlal Nehru represents the dream's noblest part , its most idealistic phase . Indira Gandhi , always the ...
... dream decays , we cannot quite bring ourselves to leave it , to awake . In this version - the dynasty as collective dream- Jawaharlal Nehru represents the dream's noblest part , its most idealistic phase . Indira Gandhi , always the ...
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... dream of God . But that dream , today , is not a means of cancelling politics ; it does not and cannot turn back the clock . The religious revivals of the world are continuations of the political process by other means . At first glance ...
... dream of God . But that dream , today , is not a means of cancelling politics ; it does not and cannot turn back the clock . The religious revivals of the world are continuations of the political process by other means . At first glance ...
Table des matières
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
IMAGINARY HOMELANDS | 9 |
IN MIDNIGHTS CHILDREN | 22 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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