Imaginary homelands essays and criticism, 1981-1991
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London : New York, N.Y., U.S.A. :
Granta Books ; In association with Viking
1991
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| Edición: | 1st American ed |
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Imaginary homeleands ; "Errata" : or, Unreliable narration in Midnight's children ; The riddle of midnight : India, August 1987
- 2. Censorship ; The assassination of Indira Gandhi ; Dynasty ; Zia ul-Haq, 17 August 1988 ; Daughter of the East
- 3. "Commonwealth literature" does not exist ; Anita Desai ; Kipling ; Hobson-Jobson
- 4. Outside the whale ; Attenborough's Gandhi ; Satyajit Ray ; Handsworth songs ; The location of Brazil
- 5. The new empire within Britain ; An unimportant fire ; Home font ; V.S. Naipaul ; The painter and the pest
- 6. A general election ; Charter 88 ; On Palestinian identity : a conversation with Edward Said
- 7. Nadine Gordimer ; Rian Malan ; Nuruddin Farah ; Kapusâcinâski's Angola
- 8. John Berger ; Graham Greene ; John Le Carreâ ; On adventure ; At the Adelaide Festival ; Traveling with Chatwin ; Chatwin's travels ; Julian Barnes ; Kazuo Ishiguro
- 9. Michel Tournier ; Italo Calvino ; Stephen hawking ; Andrei Sakharov ; Umberto Eco ; Guènther Grass ; Heinrich Boèll ; Siegfried Lenz ; Peter Schnewider ; Christoph Ransmayr ; Maurice Sendak and Wilhelm Grimm
- 10. Gabriel Garciâa Maârquez ; Mario Varga Llosa
- 11. The language of the pack ; Begrett goes to Hollywood ; E.L. Doctorow ; Michael Herr : an interview ; Richard Ford ; Raymond Carver ; Isaac Bashevis SInger ; Philip Roth ; Saul Bellow ; Thomas Pynchon ; Kurt Vonnegut ; Grace Paley ; Travels with a golden ass ; The divine supermarket
- 12. Naipaul among the believers ; "In God we trust" ; In good faith ; Is nothing sacred? ; Why I have embraced Islam
