Imagenary Homeland by Salman Rushdie

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  Welcome to my  blog. This blog is on the Imaganry Homeland. This  work is written by Salman Rushdie. 

         Salman Rushdie was a British -Indian novelist and essayist whose work, combining magical realism with historical fiction is primarily concern with  the many connections. disruptions, and migrations between Eastern and Western civilizations, with much of his fiction being set on the Indian subcontinent.

Works by Rushdie 

Novel 

Grimus 1975

Midnight children 1981

Shame 1983

The Satanic Verses 1988

Collections

East, west 1994

Mirrorwork; 50years of Indian writing 1947-1997

The best American short stories  2008

Essay and non -fiction 

The jaguar Smile : A Nicaraguan journey 1987

 'The good faith ' Granta, 1990

Imaginary Homelands: Essay and criticism, 1981-1991-1992.

The East is Blue 2004

A fine pickle 2009

In the south 2012.

"Sometimes we feel we struggle  to creatures at times that we fall between two stools".

     

      - Salman Rushdie 

Imaginary homelands is a collection of Salman rushdie's essay this is also a different collection of various articles seminar paper reviews published over a decade of literary life time during 1981-91 imaginary homelands is in successive intellectual problem eloquent and lively.

These essay which studied in our class. And here I have to write summary or essay in brief. 

Imaginary Homelands

Attenborough's Gandhi

Commonwealth Literature 

New Empire within Britain

On Palestine

Hobson -Jobson 

Imaginary Homelands

     In this essay Rushdie wrote about his own experience. 

This essay was written after the publication of the Midnight’s Children. This never was well responded in western countries but, in Indian it was rejected by Indians, and it was a request from a diasporic writer to the country of his origin to accept him.

It is written out of anguish to go to the roots of one’s origin. The desire of belonging to somewhere, it is the desire of an individual to claim a country as his/her homeland.  So, let’s analyze the essay in detail

Attenborough's Gandhi

In this essay Rushdie argue on the film Gandhi.He put many arguments to prove that some way what the director or film maker is made it is not truth. There are some changes. He said they try to portray Gandhi as Christ. And so they thought he is a saint or can say messenger of God. 

  He did many work and noble work as Christ did and they got a shocked death. 

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Commonwealth Literature

     According to Rushdie, one of the rules, one of the ideas on which the edifice rests, is that literature is an expression of nationality. Literature is a general representation of cultural particularities  that is, literature varies from culture to culture, from one period to another. There is another element of literature that shocks the literary mind. A respectable literary piece, according to Rushdie must meet the demands of authenticity. 

Authenticity demands that sources, forms, style, language and symbol all derive from a supposedly homogenous and unbroken tradition.

   Commonwealth literature is therefore an unreliable face of historicity. It is neither founded on one form nor guided by an encompassing set of norms. Indeed, when one talks of Commonwealth literature, one needs to look beyond the borders of the nation-state  to the land of the West. In short, according to Rushdie, Commonwealth literature is an encompassing myth.

Hobson -Jobson

   

       Hobson Jobson is a dictionary. In which we can find the Indian language words and meaning. And also know they people take which meaning of some particular words. 

In Anglo Indian  English, a term hobson Jobson refer to any festival of entertainment but especially ceremonies of the mourning of Muharram.

In origin the term is a a corruption by British soldiers of ya Hassain, Ya Hussain which is  repeatedly cried by shiya Muslims as they beat their cheats through out  the procession of mohrrum. 

This was converted Husseen -Gosseen, Hussy -Gussy ,Hossien -josseen, ultimately Hobson -Jobson.

 

   

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