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) _______________________ 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 --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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