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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... trying to say something which is not easily heard above the clamour of praise for the present spate of British - Indian fictions : that works of art , even works of entertainment , do not come into being in a social and political vacuum ...
... trying to say something which is not easily heard above the clamour of praise for the present spate of British - Indian fictions : that works of art , even works of entertainment , do not come into being in a social and political vacuum ...
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... trying to excavate ruptures and work out how trajectories can colour fields , they let us hear so little of the much richer language of their subjects . When Home Secretary Hurd visits Handsworth , looking bemused , just after the riots ...
... trying to excavate ruptures and work out how trajectories can colour fields , they let us hear so little of the much richer language of their subjects . When Home Secretary Hurd visits Handsworth , looking bemused , just after the riots ...
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... trying to get rid of a body in a plastic bag . You ( the real you this time ) will probably agree with You ( not the real ... ) and Ludmilla that this is the most gripping thing you've read yet . But this , too , breaks off ...
... trying to get rid of a body in a plastic bag . You ( the real you this time ) will probably agree with You ( not the real ... ) and Ludmilla that this is the most gripping thing you've read yet . But this , too , breaks off ...
Table des matières
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
IMAGINARY HOMELANDS | 9 |
IN MIDNIGHTS CHILDREN | 22 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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