Salman Rushdie's "The location of Brazil": the imaginary homelands of fantastic literature
In 1985, under the title "The Location of Brazil" Salman Rushdie published a long review of Terry Gilliam's film Brazil, which today is to be found in his collection Imaginary Homelands. My essay shows how Rushdie's article can be considered a sort of manifesto of his poetics, pi...
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| description | In 1985, under the title "The Location of Brazil" Salman Rushdie published a long review of Terry Gilliam's film Brazil, which today is to be found in his collection Imaginary Homelands. My essay shows how Rushdie's article can be considered a sort of manifesto of his poetics, pivoting on his idea of a political use of the fantastic and his concept of the migrant as a central figure of modernity. Rushdie's theories seem to anticipate on the one hand Deleuze and Guattari's ideas on minor literatures and, on the other, Arjun Appadurai's views on "modernity at large". |
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| spelling | doaj.art-5edff2f691b14cd2b33bf88ed024350a2023-01-18T08:46:26ZdeuUniversity of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani)Acta Neophilologica0567-784X2350-417X2014-12-01471-210.4312/an.47.1-2.25-30Salman Rushdie's "The location of Brazil": the imaginary homelands of fantastic literatureSilvia AlbertazziIn 1985, under the title "The Location of Brazil" Salman Rushdie published a long review of Terry Gilliam's film Brazil, which today is to be found in his collection Imaginary Homelands. My essay shows how Rushdie's article can be considered a sort of manifesto of his poetics, pivoting on his idea of a political use of the fantastic and his concept of the migrant as a central figure of modernity. Rushdie's theories seem to anticipate on the one hand Deleuze and Guattari's ideas on minor literatures and, on the other, Arjun Appadurai's views on "modernity at large".https://journals.uni-lj.si/ActaNeophilologica/article/view/2916modernityfilmmigrantsliterary studies |
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| title | Salman Rushdie's "The location of Brazil": the imaginary homelands of fantastic literature |
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