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 23
... narrators are often a little stupid , less able to work out what's going on around them than the reader . In such narratives , one deciphers the true meaning of events by ' seeing through ' the narrator's faulty vision . However , the ...
... narrators are often a little stupid , less able to work out what's going on around them than the reader . In such narratives , one deciphers the true meaning of events by ' seeing through ' the narrator's faulty vision . However , the ...
Page 149
... narrator must learn , once more , to see . It is a kind of extreme minimalism , but it becomes almost hypnotic . And ... narrator's view of rustic England changes . At first idyllic - ' Of literature and antiquity and the landscape Jack ...
... narrator must learn , once more , to see . It is a kind of extreme minimalism , but it becomes almost hypnotic . And ... narrator's view of rustic England changes . At first idyllic - ' Of literature and antiquity and the landscape Jack ...
Page 317
... narrator , does reveal a long - concealed secret , which inevitably shows up the novel's Trots as being even nastier than we had hitherto supposed - without Rosebud , either . This final meeting between investigator and investigated ...
... narrator , does reveal a long - concealed secret , which inevitably shows up the novel's Trots as being even nastier than we had hitherto supposed - without Rosebud , either . This final meeting between investigator and investigated ...
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