Thinking Activity: Imaginary Homelands: Selected Essays: Salman Rushdie

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 Today I am write on post colonial studies in Salman Rushdie's essay. So read my blog on this topic.

“Imaginary Homeland” is the collection of essays written between 1981 and 1992. In 1988 Salman Rushdie published his most controversial work Satanic Verses. 

Imaginary Homelands In this essay does Rushdie write: "This is why I made my narrator, Saleem, suspect in his narration; his mistakes are the mistakes of a fallible memory compounded by quirks of character and of circumstance, and his vision is fragmentary. It may be that when the Indian writer who writes from outside India tries to reflect that world, he is obliged to deal in broken mirrors, some of whose fragments have been irretrievably lost.

Imaginary Homeland essay gives description about “past” and “present” memories of Salman Rushdie. The central theme of The essay 'Imaginary Homelands' is to write about his personal diasporic sense and sensibility.

‡ Here I write names of all essay which is wrote by Salman Rushdie.

1. The New Empire
2. On Palestine
3. Hobson - Jobson
4. Attenborough'S Gandhi
5. Common wealth literature does not exist

1: The New Empire:

The New Empire is within Britain essay based on “ Power of British empire” on black people. In this essay New Empire within Britain Salman Rushdie wrote this: "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'."

The central theme of essay 'The Empire within Britain' is To analyse the discrimination with the 'Others' in Britain.

(2) On Palestine:

The central theme of the essay 'On Palestine' is To understand the issue of Israel - Palestine from the perspective of Edward Said's Orientalism.

(3) Hobson-Jobson:

During British rule in India a new Anglo-Indian dictionary came into existence about which Salman Rushdie writes. Which is that dictionary as well as the name of Hobson Jonson the essay.

The central theme of the essay 'Hobson-Jobson' is to highlight the inclusion of Indian words in English vocabulary with reference to new dictionaries written by Henry Yule and Arthur Coke Burnell.

(4) Attenborough's Gandhi:

This is reasons might have attracted Attenborough to make film on Gandhi: The exotic impulse - the wish to see India as the fountainhead of spiritual-mystical wisdom. Christian longing for a leader dedicated to ideals of poverty and simplicity, a man who is too good for this world and is therefore sacrificed on the altars of history. Liberal-conservative political desire to hear it said that revolutions can , and should be made purely by submission, and self-sacrifice, and non-violence alone.

The central theme of essay 'Attenborough's Gandhi' is To make a critique of magnum opus film 'Gandhi' by Richard Atternborough.

After all the things the form of the film, opulent, lavish , overpowers and finally crushes the man at its center. About the movie Attenborough’s Gandhi does, Rushdie talks about. Salman Rushdie won the Booker Prize in 1981 for his second novel Midnight children.

(5) Commonwealth Leterature does not exist:

Commonwealth Literature is used to cover the literary works from territories that were once part of the British Empire, but it usually excludes books from the United Kingdom unless these are produced by resident writers who originate from a former colony.

Salman Rushdie was asked whether he is British or Indian. He replied, "The formulation Indian born British writer." Commonwealth Literature does not exist in this essay.

In Commonwealth literature the essay does not exist. Salman Rushdie wrote this: "I recently met the distinguished Gujarati novelist, Suresh Joshi. He told me that he could write in Hindi but felt obliged to write in Gujarati because it was a language under threat. Not from English, or the West: from Hindi."

The central theme of the essay 'Commonwealth literature does not exist ' is To discuss the problems of nomenclature and categorization in 'Commonwealth literature'.

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