File spoon-archives/postcolonial.archive/postcolonial_1996/96-07-14.151, message 97


Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 20:20:31 -0400 (EDT)
From: Radhika Gajjala <rxgst6+-AT-pitt.edu>
Subject: Re: Salman Rushdie in the Age of Reason (fwd)




From: julian samuel <jjsamuel+-AT-aei.ca>
Subject: Re: Salman Rushdie in the Age of Reason (fwd)
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copy of my response

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.

j



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