ICI Class Friday "Imaginary Homelands"

These are the issues we'll (mostly you & I just a little)be addressing in class:
1. Brief bio of Salman Rushdie
2. Brief info about current state of affairs in India & Pakistan
3. Sense of loss & alienation in time & space for the migrating/exiled writer
4. Narrators' suspicious character/unreliability
5. Broken glass/es
6. Territorial, linguistic & cultural displacements
7. How to write: the unhoused; the unhomely unheimlich
8. "Description is a political act."
9. Denial of official versions of events
10. Polarity: East-West
11. Use of English by authors whose mother tongue is not precisely English