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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... mean ' assimilation ' : a black man could only become integrated when he started behaving like a white one . After ... means telling cadets that black people are so ' culturally different ' that they can't help making trouble ...
... mean ' assimilation ' : a black man could only become integrated when he started behaving like a white one . After ... means telling cadets that black people are so ' culturally different ' that they can't help making trouble ...
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... means all the families involved are black . ) Presumably not enough people have been burned to death yet . Priorities are priorities , after all . How does the old song go ? The people's tape is deepest red ... On the second night of ...
... means all the families involved are black . ) Presumably not enough people have been burned to death yet . Priorities are priorities , after all . How does the old song go ? The people's tape is deepest red ... On the second night of ...
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... 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 the state of affairs in the United States of ...
... 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 the state of affairs in the United States of ...
Table des matières
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
IMAGINARY HOMELANDS | 9 |
IN MIDNIGHTS CHILDREN | 22 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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