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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... political literature for the rest of my writing life . Lewis Carroll and Laurence Sterne are as important to literature as Swift or Brecht . What I am saying is that politics and literature , like sport and politics , do mix , are ...
... political literature for the rest of my writing life . Lewis Carroll and Laurence Sterne are as important to literature as Swift or Brecht . What I am saying is that politics and literature , like sport and politics , do mix , are ...
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... political , even the party - political field ; but as pre- political , as one of those initiatives which , like the civil rights movement , the anti - Vietnam movement , the women's movement , the nuclear disarmament movement , the ...
... political , even the party - political field ; but as pre- political , as one of those initiatives which , like the civil rights movement , the anti - Vietnam movement , the women's movement , the nuclear disarmament movement , the ...
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... political systems is removed . Poland's religious fervour , for example , seems deeply nationalistic ; those who mourn the death of a fallen priest mourn his falling in a political struggle . We have a Pope who is more politically ...
... political systems is removed . Poland's religious fervour , for example , seems deeply nationalistic ; those who mourn the death of a fallen priest mourn his falling in a political struggle . We have a Pope who is more politically ...
Table des matières
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
IMAGINARY HOMELANDS | 9 |
IN MIDNIGHTS CHILDREN | 22 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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