Imaginary homelands : essays and criticism 1981-1991

著者

• Rushdie, Salman

書誌事項

Imaginary homelands : essays and criticism 1981-1991

Salman Rushdie

Granta in association with Penguin, 1992, c1991

• : pbk

注記

"Granta books"

内容説明・目次

内容説明

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.

目次

Imaginary HomelandsIntroduction 1 Imaginary Homelands "Errata": Or, Unreliable Narration in Midnight's Children The Riddle of Midnight: India, August 19872 Censorship The Assassination of Indira Gandhi Dynasty Zia ul-Haq. 17 August 1988 Daughter of the East 3 "Commonwealth Literature" Does Not Exist Anita Desai Kipling Hobson-Jobson 4 Outside the Whale Attenborough's Gandhi Satyajit Ray Handsworth Songs The Location of Brazil 5 The New Empire within Britain An Unimportant Fire Home Front V. S. Naipaul The Painter and the Pest 6 A General Election Charter 88 On Palestinian Identity: A Conversation with Edward Said 7 Nadine Gordimer Rian Malan Nuruddin Farah Kapuscinski's Angola 8 John Berger Graham Greene John le Carre On Adventure At the Adelaide Festival Travelling with Chatwin Chatwin's Travels Julian Barnes Kazuo Ishiguro 9 Michel Tournier Italo Calvino Stephen Hawking Andrei Sakharov Umberto Eco Gunter Grass Heinrich Boll Siegfried Lenz Peter Schneider Christoph Ransmayr Maurice Sendak and Wilhelm Grimm 10 Gabriel Garcia Marquez Mario Vargas Llosa 11 The Language of the Pack Debrett Goes to Hollywood E. L. Doctorow Michael Herr: An Interview Richard Ford Raymond Carver Isaac Bashevis Singer Philip Roth Saul Bellow Thomas Pynchon Kurt Vonnegut Grace Paley Travels with a Golden Ass The Divine Supermarket 12 Naipaul Among the Believers "In God We Trust" In Good Faith Is Nothing Sacred? One Thousand Days in a Balloon

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA18718067
• ISBN:
  • 0140140360
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: London
• ページ数/冊数: 439 p.
• 大きさ: 20 cm
• 分類:
  • DC20 : 828