Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism, 1981-1991Like 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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Essays and Criticism, 1981-1991 Salman Rushdie. ' COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE ' DOES NOT EXIST " hen I was invited to speak at the 1983 English Studies Seminar in Cambridge , the lady from the W British ... COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE' DOES NOT ...
Essays and Criticism, 1981-1991 Salman Rushdie. ' COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE ' DOES NOT EXIST " hen I was invited to speak at the 1983 English Studies Seminar in Cambridge , the lady from the W British ... COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE' DOES NOT ...
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... literature into a box and then more or less ignore it . At best , what is called ' Commonwealth literature ' is positioned below English literature ' proper ' - or , to come back to my friend the don , it places Eng . Lit. at the centre ...
... literature into a box and then more or less ignore it . At best , what is called ' Commonwealth literature ' is positioned below English literature ' proper ' - or , to come back to my friend the don , it places Eng . Lit. at the centre ...
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... writers claimed by ' Commonwealth literature ' deny that they have anything to do with it . I said that the concept of ' Commonwealth literature ' did disservice to some writers , leading to false readings of their work ; in India , I ...
... writers claimed by ' Commonwealth literature ' deny that they have anything to do with it . I said that the concept of ' Commonwealth literature ' did disservice to some writers , leading to false readings of their work ; in India , I ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
IMAGINARY HOMELANDS | 9 |
IN MIDNIGHTS CHILDREN | 22 |
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