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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... true that the text of this essay is deliberately polemical , and no doubt that upset the Howes and Tebbits . I make no apology for being angry about racial prejudice . But it is also true that the piece repeatedly insists that the ...
... true that the text of this essay is deliberately polemical , and no doubt that upset the Howes and Tebbits . I make no apology for being angry about racial prejudice . But it is also true that the piece repeatedly insists that the ...
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... true for Karl Marx as it had been for Aristotle . It is apparently true no more . ' Nothing in Britain is these days permitted to be apolitical , ' Hugo Young tells us in a Guardian article accusing the Charter 88 campaign of being the ...
... true for Karl Marx as it had been for Aristotle . It is apparently true no more . ' Nothing in Britain is these days permitted to be apolitical , ' Hugo Young tells us in a Guardian article accusing the Charter 88 campaign of being the ...
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... True Believer knows no such restraints . The True Believer knows that he is simply right , and you are wrong . He will seek to convert you , even by force , and if he cannot he will , at the very least , despise you for your unbelief ...
... True Believer knows no such restraints . The True Believer knows that he is simply right , and you are wrong . He will seek to convert you , even by force , and if he cannot he will , at the very least , despise you for your unbelief ...
Table des matières
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
IMAGINARY HOMELANDS | 9 |
IN MIDNIGHTS CHILDREN | 22 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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