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Imaginary Homelands

Imaginary Homelands. Sir Salman Rushdie . Background on Author . Sir Salman Rushdie (born June 19, 1947, Bombay, India ) He was educated at Rugby School and the University of Cambridge, receiving an M.A. degree in history in 1968

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Imaginary Homelands

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  1. Imaginary Homelands Sir Salman Rushdie

  2. Background on Author • Sir Salman Rushdie (born June 19, 1947, Bombay, India) • He was educated at Rugby School and the University of Cambridge, receiving an M.A. degree in history in 1968 • After graduating, he spent time working in television and a brief period as a copywriter for an advertising agency, before pursuing a career as a writer • He wrote his first novel in 1975

  3. Imaginary Homelands • He said that in these essays he was writing about what it’s like to write about the places you’ve left • To what extent are you making things up • To what extent is it a real place • Even if you live there you are making it up • So basically we all live in an imaginary homeland

  4. Imaginary Homelands • The part that we read in class dealt with him talking about growing up in India and moving away • He talks about coming home for the first time in years and looking in the phone book and his fathers name and number still being in there • Which to me signifies that we are all still part of where we come from • And, that we all have emigrated from the past to where we are now

  5. Imaginary Homelands • You see him talking about using his imagination and bits of truth to rebuild his India • He talks about how he thinks back about the way things used to be like a mirror • And putting all the shards of the mirror together and adding stuff to the mirror when he couldn’t find that shard

  6. Imaginary Homelands Quotes • “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.” • “Sometimes we feel we straddle two cultures; at other times, that we fall between two stools.” • “human beings do not perceive things whole; we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capable only of fractured perceptions”

  7. Imaginary Homelands • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDDKsZ-GZ84 • http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/513067/Sir-Salman-Rushdie • http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/525180-imaginary-homelands

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