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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... religion's aim of providing ' rules for every damn thing ' , he is not only tormenting the dreamer , but asking the reader to think about the validity of religion's rules . To those participants in the controversy who have felt able to ...
... religion's aim of providing ' rules for every damn thing ' , he is not only tormenting the dreamer , but asking the reader to think about the validity of religion's rules . To those participants in the controversy who have felt able to ...
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... religion and literature , as between politics and literature , there is a linguistically based dispute . But it is not a dispute of simple opposites . Because whereas religion seeks to privilege one language above all others , one set ...
... religion and literature , as between politics and literature , there is a linguistically based dispute . But it is not a dispute of simple opposites . Because whereas religion seeks to privilege one language above all others , one set ...
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... religion , and religion for me has always meant Islam . That journey is by no means over . I am certainly not a good Muslim . But I am able now to say that I am Muslim ; in fact it is a source of happiness to say that I am now inside ...
... religion , and religion for me has always meant Islam . That journey is by no means over . I am certainly not a good Muslim . But I am able now to say that I am Muslim ; in fact it is a source of happiness to say that I am now inside ...
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INTRODUCTION | 1 |
IMAGINARY HOMELANDS | 9 |
IN MIDNIGHTS CHILDREN | 22 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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