Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 00:22:36 +0200 (MEST)
Subject: Re: the ground beneath her feet...


well,

for some reason it's called "the ground beneath her feet" and it's by U2.

michael hensen
english lit and culture
uni of passau
germany


> 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
> English Department
> Trent University
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