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Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991

by Salman Rushdie · 1991

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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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literary criticismliterary criticismMore like thisLess of thispoliticspoliticsMore like thisLess of thishistoryhistoryMore like thisLess of thisphilosophyphilosophyMore like thisLess of this
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literary fictionliterary fictionMore like thisLess of this
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religionreligionMore like thisLess of thiswriterswritersMore like thisLess of this
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20th century20th centuryMore like thisLess of thisIndiaIndiaMore like thisLess of thisPakistanPakistanMore like thisLess of thisBritishBritishMore like thisLess of thisEnglandEnglandMore like thisLess of this
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adult
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long · 448 pages
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