Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 21:37:35 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ismail Talib <i_talib-AT-email.com>
Subject: Re: the ground beneath her feet...


Not exactly on the conflict between the acoustic and the visual, but on
conflicts of different types -- between different pictures of reality, and
between the imagined and the real (whether acoustic or visual). Some
comments by Rushdie himself on his book (from 'Salman Rushdie: Return To
Eden', Interview by Swapan Dasgupta and Ashok Malik, India Today (May
2000)):

'One of the things this book (Ground Beneath Her Feet) talks about is the
blurring of the frontier between the real world and the imagined world. The
kind of pictures we make of the world actually begin to affect the world we
live in. One way of understanding the conflict in Kosovo is that there are
two people with different visions of the same piece of earth, literally
define it differently, see it differently, have a different dream of it. So
you fight a war because of your picture of the world. You can even talk
about Kashmir in the same terms.

Essentially our imaginative acts are turning into concrete acts. This book
tries to write about that. And in a kind of lighthearted way, it was
wonderful that a thing that I had invented, an imaginary pop group singing
an imaginary song, suddenly turned into a real song. So that was great
pleasure for me and also, I hope, makes me lots of money.'




------Original Message------
From: Michael Hensen <michael.hensen-AT-gmx.de>
To: postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
Sent: October 16, 2000 8:54:47 PM GMT
Subject: Re: the ground beneath her feet...


nope,

there is hardly anything as yet on gbhf, apart from the odd review in tls
or newspapers. in a forthcoming article, presumably in rodopi's
cross/cultures series, i focus more on the old postmodern notion of identity
etc., but
would certainly be interested in further exchange on the topic. do contact
me.

mh


> howdy--
>
> does anyone know of any critical articles that concern the conflicts
> between
> the acoustic and the visual in rushdie's "the ground beneath her feet?"
> i
> know there hasn't been much work done on this book at all...
>
>
> thanks!
>
> -christopher fan
>
>
>
>
>
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