Salman Rushdie as an Essayist - Imaginary Homelands.
IMAGINARY HOMELANDS is a collection of Salman Rushdie's writings from 1981 to 1991. They include essays, book reviews, interviews, and random musings dating from the beginning of his popularity after his novel MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN until the third anniversary of the death fatwa pronounced on him by the Ayatollah Khomeini for his book THE SATANIC VERSES.Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism from 1981-1991 is a book of essays by acclaimed author Salman Rushdie. Though Rushdie is best known for his provocative novels, most of which are set in and around India, this book features seventy-four of his essays.Spiegelman’s Imaginary Homelands An author’s background and past life has a vast influence on his or her writing and can be the foundation of their material. Imaginary Homelands by Salman Rushdie depicts the criteria for a successful or unsuccessful work of literature. His input on an author.
Salman Rushdie ’s essay “Imaginary Homelands” begins with an image of a photograph in the room where he writes. It is a picture of the house in which he lived as a child, taken before he was born.In his own fictions, Salman Rushdie has created just such imaginary homelands: an India of the mind in Midnight’s Children, a Pakistan of the mind in Shame, an Islam, Bombay, and London of the mind.
Rushdie’s “Imaginary Homelands” is not just a literary monument to India and its impact on English literature; it is not just a mere praise to the literary-critical thought, but rather an artistic expression of the author’s social and political idea. Rushdie’s originality is evident.
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