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Imaginary Homelands by Salman Rushdie · Booklabria

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Imaginary Homelands

Politics and governmentHistory and criticism

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First published: 1991
Editions: 14 in 2 languages

Synopsis

This collection of essays covers such topics as the literature of Rushdie's contemporaries; the politics of colonialism and the ironies of culture; film, politicians, the Labour Party, religious fundamentalism, racial prejudice; and the preciousness of the imagination and of free expression.

Subjects: Politics and government
History and criticism
Essays
Intellectual life
Modern Literature
Literature, Modern
Set in: India
Pakistan
Time: 20th Century

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14 in 2 languages

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