Imaginary Homeland by Salman Rushdie

 

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Imaginary Homeland:  selected Essays Salman Rushdie.

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         # Salman Rushdie #

    

Salman Rushdie, in full Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie, (born June 19, 1947, Bombay [now Mumbai], India), Indian-born British writer whose allegorical novels examine historical and philosophical issues by means of surreal characters, brooding humour, and an effusive and melodramatic prose style. His treatment of sensitive religious and political subjects made him a controversial figure.

 The novel Shame (1983), based on contemporary politics in Pakistan, was also popular, but Rushdie’s fourth novel, The Satanic Verses, encountered a different reception.

    #  NOTABLE WORKS #

“The Satanic Verses”

“Midnight’s Children”

“The Moors Last Sigh”

“Shalimar the Clown”

“Step Across This Line”

“Shame”

“Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights”

“Luka and the Fire of Life”

“The Golden House”

“Quichotte”

 #  AWARDS AND HONORS #

Costa Book Awards (1995)

Costa Book Awards (1988)

Booker Prize (1981)

    # Imaginary Homeland #

  

 

        His book, Imaginary Homeland, are essays written during 1981 to 1992, collecting controversial issues of the decade. They are based on the experience of Rushdie's and his contemporary time scenario when Indira Gandhi was in power.

 In addition to the title essay, the collection also includes "'Commonwealth Literature' Does Not Exist". Salman Rushdie's “Imaginary Homelands” is an essay that propounds an anti-essentialist view of place.

 " And so it's interesting to remember that when Mahatma Gandhi, the father of an earlier freedom movement, came to England and was asked what he thought of English civilization, he replied: 'I think it would be a good idea."

    Salman Rushdie is the most controversial writer among Indian writing in English.

One of the novelists whose name Rushdie did not reveal, began his contribution by reciting a Sanskrit Shloka, and then, instead of translating the verse he declared,

 “Every educated Indian will understand what I have just said”.

  The Essay " Imaginary Homeland " is divided in to six section.

  # Midnight's children

   # Politics of India and Pakistan

 # Indo-Anglian literature

 # Movie and Television

 # Experience of migrants, Indian migrants to Britain

 # Thatcher/flout election, question of Palestine

        " The word 'translation' comes, etymologically, from the Latin for 'bearing across'. Having been borne across the world, we are translated men. It is normally supposed that something always gets lost in translation; I cling, obstinately to the notion that something can also be gained."

     “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 Rushdie’s masterful invention and ease, the flow of wit and 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 Rushdie’s Imaginary Homelands is an important record of one writer’s 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 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. For this paperback edition, the author has written a new essay to mark the third anniversary of the fatwa.

        " Meaning is a shaky edifice we build out of scraps, dogmas, childhood injuries, newspaper articles, chance remarks, old fillms, small victories, people hated, people loved; perhaps it is because our sense of what is the case is constructed from such inadequate materials that we defend it so fiercely, even to death. "

     In the Essay Imaginary Homeland is about Salman Rushdie past and present. He was write of Diaspora and Postcolonial . In the Essay he was write about his experience in the Mombay , Indira Gandhi's BBC interview, wrote on indian Subcontinent.

      This book Compiles the Controversial issue of the days when Indira Gandhi was in power " Imaginary Homeland" brings most of these Essays together.

Rushdie has written it in the wake of the Satanic verscs Controversy to from what amounts to an Extraordinary intellectual Autobiography...

It is also called a collection Rushdie's Essay, seminar paper, Article, Revie WS published over a decade of his literary life time 1981-1991.

 Like any collection of Essays it is wide ranging from the popular to the Obscure. The Essay deal with Varying political, Social and Literary topics.

The Reaction to such a book can only be personal and subjective .it is not a story that can be discussed with some degree of detachment .

   " It may be argued that the past is a country from which we have all emigrated, that its loss is part of our common humanity. "