Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 14:17:38 -0400
Subject: Re: the ground beneath her feet...


What song is Rushdie talking about below? Did I miss mention of this in
an earlier post, or have I been living under a rock?

If anyone knows the title and group that R is referring to, I would be
-very- interesting in hearing the song!

Mac.


Ismail Talib wrote:
> 
> 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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Mac Fenwick
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Trent University
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