Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991“Read every page of this book; better still, re-read them. The invocation means no hardship, since every true reader must surely be captivated by Rushdie’s masterful invention and ease, the flow of wit and insight and passion. How literature of the highest order can serve the interests of our common humanity is freshly illustrated here: a defence of his past, a promise for the future, and a surrender to nobody or nothing whatever except his own all-powerful imagination.”-Michael Foot, Observer Salman Rushdie’s Imaginary Homelands is an important record of one writer’s intellectual and personal odyssey. The seventy essays collected here, written over the last ten years, cover an astonishing range of subjects –the literature of the received masters and of Rushdie’s contemporaries; the politics of colonialism and the ironies of culture; film, politicians, the Labour Party, religious fundamentalism in America, racial prejudice; and the preciousness of the imagination and of free expression. For this paperback edition, the author has written a new essay to mark the third anniversary of the fatwa. |
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Page 28
... Hindu tailor , Harbans Lal , born in 1947 and as mild and gentle a man as you could wish to find . The violence terrified him . ' When it started , ' he said , ' I shut up the shop and ran away . ' But in spite of all his mildness ...
... Hindu tailor , Harbans Lal , born in 1947 and as mild and gentle a man as you could wish to find . The violence terrified him . ' When it started , ' he said , ' I shut up the shop and ran away . ' But in spite of all his mildness ...
Page 50
... Hindu mother- goddess symbols and allusions - and the idea of shakti , of the fact that the dynamic element of the Hindu pantheon is represented as female — was calculated and shrewd , but one feels that this , too , would have ...
... Hindu mother- goddess symbols and allusions - and the idea of shakti , of the fact that the dynamic element of the Hindu pantheon is represented as female — was calculated and shrewd , but one feels that this , too , would have ...
Page 386
... Hindu , but Hindi : attempts to impose this language on the whole of India created much resentment , particularly in ... Hindu nationalism sprang separatism of all sorts ; if Hindustan was really to be turned into the home of the Hindus ...
... Hindu , but Hindi : attempts to impose this language on the whole of India created much resentment , particularly in ... Hindu nationalism sprang separatism of all sorts ; if Hindustan was really to be turned into the home of the Hindus ...
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