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Title:Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991
Author:Salman Rushdie
Book Format:Paperback
Book Edition:Special Edition
Pages:Pages: 448 pages
Published:February 14th 1992 by Granta (first published 1991)
Categories:Nonfiction. Writing. Essays. Cultural. India. Politics

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Containing 74 essays written over the last ten years, this book covers a range of subjects including the literature of the perceived 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.

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Original Title: Imaginary Homelands
ISBN: 0140140360 (ISBN13: 9780140140361)
Edition Language: English

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IMAGINARY HOMELANDS is a collection of reviews, articles, interviews and papers written during the years 1981 to 1991. They cover a wide range of subjects, including political, social and literary topics. However, Rushdie's main concern is the cultural plight of the migrant, so there are several pieces on this subject.Rushdie's writing is usually attractive, provocative and incisive. I love the way he writes about literature. Nevertheless, I found the three concluding pieces, published in 1990,

To be fair, I skimmed through some of the essays because I was not interested in the topics, such as essays on Bills in Parliament from the 80s, or an experience at a festival in Adelaide. Its however staggering to see how prescient some of Rushdies observations on religion, racism, fundamentalism, politics, and art are, and how progressive he comes across in his essays. The hit job on John le Carres work also echoes with the latters public reaction to Rushdies situation following Satanic

I'll keep repeating, "for God's sake, open the universe a little more!"Rushdie is one of his kind, as I have been knowing him long time ago :) and no more is there to be said.

Brilliant, humorous, crackling..

Oh boy, Rushdie can definitely write. I must say that I am biased: Salman Rushdie has been one of my favorite authors ever since I encountered The Satanic Verses . I've always admired a person who would be willing to question everything, and hold nothing sacred. I have followed the whole controversy relatively late, as I was still too young to appreciate the things at stake when the Salman Rushdie affair exploded in the early 1990s. Anyway, I have read about it later, and since I could Rushdie

This is an interesting book of criticism which I got virtually free at a library discard sale. It gives the author's thinking and opinions on all kinds of works, mostly from the late 70's and 1980's. It was definitely worth reading.

Salman Rushdie could write about a slice of bread and make it sound interesting. This is an amazing feat, to be able to demonstrate novelty in the mundane, accomplished only by virtue of an astonishing writing talent and a fiercely thoughtful mind. Of course when I finally read a compilation of Rushdie's essays from the eighties, this fact is propounded by manifolds. Here we have beliefs and not just make-beliefs as the author himself points out in one of his defenses of The Satanic