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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... novel wear toy devil - horns proudly , as an assertion of pride in identity , so the novel proudly wears its demonic title . The purpose is not to suggest that the Qur'an is written by the devil ; it is to attempt the sort of act of ...
... novel wear toy devil - horns proudly , as an assertion of pride in identity , so the novel proudly wears its demonic title . The purpose is not to suggest that the Qur'an is written by the devil ; it is to attempt the sort of act of ...
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... novel has always been about the way in which different languages , values and narratives quarrel , and about the shifting relations between them , which are relations of power . The novel does not seek to establish a privileged language ...
... novel has always been about the way in which different languages , values and narratives quarrel , and about the shifting relations between them , which are relations of power . The novel does not seek to establish a privileged language ...
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... novel . This ' secret identity ' of writer and reader is the novel form's greatest and most subversive gift . And this , finally , is why I elevate the novel above other forms , why it has always been , and remains , my first love : not ...
... novel . This ' secret identity ' of writer and reader is the novel form's greatest and most subversive gift . And this , finally , is why I elevate the novel above other forms , why it has always been , and remains , my first love : not ...
Table des matières
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
IMAGINARY HOMELANDS | 9 |
IN MIDNIGHTS CHILDREN | 22 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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