Imaginary Homelands : Essays and Criticism 1981-1991

Salman Rushdie
Penguin Books
 9780140140361
0-14-014036-0

Read every page of this book; better still, re-read them. The invocation means no hardship, since every true reader must surely be captivated by Rushdies masterful invention and ease, the flow of wit and.

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insight and passion. How literature of the highest order can serve the interests of our common humanity is freshly illustrated here: a defence of his past, a promise for the future, and a surrender to nobody or nothing whatever except his own all-powerful imagination.-Michael Foot, Observer Salman Rushdies Imaginary Homelands is an important record of one writers intellectual and personal odyssey. The seventy essays collected here, written over the last ten years, cover an astonishing range of subjects the literature of the received masters and of Rushdies 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. For this paperback edition, the author has written a new essay to mark the third anniversary of the fatwa.