File spoon-archives/postcolonial.archive/postcolonial_1996/96-07-14.151, message 115


Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 16:48:47 -0400
From: jjsamuel-AT-aei.ca (julian samuel)
Subject: Re: Salman Rushdie in the Age of Reason (fwd)


To: tburke1+-AT-swarthmore.edu
From: jjsamuel-AT-aei.ca (julian samuel)
Dear Timothy:

I greatly appreciate your review of my Rushdie in the Age of Reason. Thank
you.

However, I worry that you have not understood it geopolitically  --  I
 mean
in the deepest way possible ... (Your dead right about the local
Islamic-repression bit -- another stupidty on my part. Thanks for pointing
this out)...this makes it easy for you to be ever-so-slightly harsh with
 me
-- I understand this to be not really your fault. Rushdie is very very
sleazy.

I said I did not hold his class-background against him: it is something
 that
ought to be considered.

You may want to review the works of Amin Maalouf:

Les croisades vues par les arabes
Samarcande
Leon L'Africain
and Tahar Ben Jelloun's Les amandiers sont morts de leur blessures

These intellectuals -- Maalouf especially, are much much deeper thinkers
 and
better writers than empire rushdie. I have a feeling that you may differ
 --
the debate continues...

I get the impression that you're something of an expert on Islam: You also
know that Rushdie -- got the War of the Ditches from M. Watt -- so much
 for
his innovations.


Julian
Julian J. Samuel
360 Terrasse Saint Denis
Montreal
H2X 1E8 
Canada
Phone: 514 284 0431
email: jjsamuel-AT-aei.ca



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