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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... religious sectarianism , many of the centrifugal stresses in Indian society , can be traced to political , not religious , origins . And we will have to begin with the Emergency , and with Sanjay Gandhi . Because it was in the time of ...
... religious sectarianism , many of the centrifugal stresses in Indian society , can be traced to political , not religious , origins . And we will have to begin with the Emergency , and with Sanjay Gandhi . Because it was in the time of ...
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... religious fervour cloaks equally fierce nationalist aspirations . We are near a millennium ; once again , we have the idea of standing near the end of time . It is perhaps unsurprising that so many of us , awaking from the dream of ...
... religious fervour cloaks equally fierce nationalist aspirations . We are near a millennium ; once again , we have the idea of standing near the end of time . It is perhaps unsurprising that so many of us , awaking from the dream of ...
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... religion and literature , as between politics and literature , there is a linguistically based dispute . But it is ... religious dogma and hierarchy ? Which is to say : Can art be the third principle that mediates between the material ...
... religion and literature , as between politics and literature , there is a linguistically based dispute . But it is ... religious dogma and hierarchy ? Which is to say : Can art be the third principle that mediates between the material ...
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INTRODUCTION | 1 |
IMAGINARY HOMELANDS | 9 |
IN MIDNIGHTS CHILDREN | 22 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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