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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

Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991

Salman Rushdie

Paperback | Pages: 448 pages

Rating: 3.97 | 1306 Users | 72 Reviews

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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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Many years ago, Kurt Vonnegut asked me if I was serious about writing. I said I was. He then said, if I remember correctly, that there was trouble ahead, that one day I would not have a book to write and I would still have to write a book.It was a sad, and saddening remark.

This is a fine collection of essays that encapsulates a writers musings over an eventful decade in his life: from his Booker win to the fatwa declared upon him.Made up of a collection of reviews, political observations of mainly India and the UK, interviews, travels in Australia, critical appraisals of fellow writers of renown (of course, all of them have their limitations according to Salman), musings on religion, and to a final defence of his most controversial novel, The Satanic Verses,

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.

I read "Commonwealth Literature Does Not Exist," "Hobson-Jobson," "Is Nothing Sacred?" and "Why I have Embraced Islam." I must say, I actually prefer reading Rushdie's essays to reading his fiction. His narrative voice is more pleasant to me when it's in an essay.Thoughts on each essay:"Commonwealth Literature Does Not Exist"Nicely coincides with my recent obsession with the idea of strategic essentialism. Like, in the fifth paragraph Rushdie says it's weird how there's "a school of literature

The rating was more for the uneven nature of the collection which can come when compiling a decade of criticism and essays. Certainly some of the essays are gems and the entire book is well worth reading.

Reading Imaginary Homelands is a lot like viewing the other side of the intricately engraved coin that is Salman Rushdie. For all the fantastical elements of his fiction, here he shows the realism needed to assess the wider world without sacrificing his literary talents for the sake of accessible criticism. He certainly has a lot to say, or did in the 80s at any rate. Those wanting to know more about India and Pakistan, places that I could know a lot more about, will find that there. I found the

The word 'translation' comes, etymologically, from the Latin for 'bearing across'. Having been borne across the world, we are translated men. Salman Rushdie compares migration to translation- some things get carried across while others are left behind. Rushdie himself has been in the unique position of forever being the migrant, a Muslim in India, an Indian in Pakistan and a brown man in Britain. All his writing is a derivative, in some form or another, of his position as a migrant. It is the