Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 16:31:53 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: the ground beneath her feet...


You can download 'the ground beneath her feet' by U2
as an MP3 file from 
http://www.mp3mp4.com/

--- Mac Fenwick <macfenwick-AT-home.com> wrote:
> 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
> Homepage: http://www.trentu.ca/~mfenwick/
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