Imaginary Homelands
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Imaginary Homelands is a collection of essays and criticism by Salman Rushdie.[1]
The collection is composed of essays written between 1981 and 1992, including pieces of political criticism – e.g. on the assassination of Indira Gandhi, the Conservative 1983 General Election victory, censorship, the Labour Party, and Palestinian identity – as well as literary criticism – e.g. on V. S. Naipaul, Graham Greene, Julian Barnes, and Kazuo Ishiguro among others.
The title essay – "Imaginary Homelands" – was originally published in the London Review of Books on 7 October 1982.[2] Comparing his work Midnight's Children to other works that draw on diaspora as a central theme, Rushdie argues that the migrant – whether from one country to another, from one language or culture to another or even from a traditional rural society to a modern metropolis – "is, perhaps, the central or defining figure of the twentieth century."[1]
References
- ^ a b Rushdie, Salman (1991). Imaginary Homelands – essays and criticism 1981-1991. London: Granta in association with Penguin. ISBN 9780140140361.
- ^ Rushdie, Salman (7 October 1982). "Imaginary Homelands". London Review of Books. Vol. 4, no. 18.
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- Grimus (1975)
- Midnight's Children (1981)
- Shame (1983)
- The Satanic Verses (1988)
- The Moor's Last Sigh (1995)
- The Ground Beneath Her Feet (1999)
- Fury (2001)
- Shalimar the Clown (2005)
- The Enchantress of Florence (2008)
- Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights (2015)
- The Golden House (2017)
- Quichotte (2019)
- Victory City (2023)
- East, West (1994)
- Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981–1991 (1992)
- Homeless by Choice (1992)
- Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992–2002 (2002)
- The East Is Blue (2004)
- Languages of Truth (2021)
- Haroun and the Sea of Stories (with Tim Supple and David Tushingham)
- Midnight's Children (with Tim Supple and Simon Reade)
- Midnight's Children (with Deepa Mehta)
- Haroun and the Sea of Stories (1990)
- Luka and the Fire of Life (2010)
- The Vintage Book of Indian Writing (co-editor)
- "In the South" (2009)
- The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey (1987)
- Joseph Anton: A Memoir (2012)
- Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder (2024)
- Cat Stevens comments (1989)
- 1989 firebombing of the Riverdale Press
- An Essay on Censorship (1989)
- The Blasphemers' Banquet (1989)
- A Brief History of Blasphemy (1990)
- The Rushdie Affair: The Novel, the Ayatollah, and the West (1990)
- International Guerillas (1990)
- Hitoshi Igarashi (1947–1991)
- "The Ground Beneath Her Feet" (2000)
- Knighthood (2007)
- Stabbing (2022)
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