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 of non fiction "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".
S. Albertazzi (2014). Salman Rushdie's "The Location of Brazil". The Imaginary Homelands of Fantastic Literature. ACTA NEOPHILOLOGICA, 47(1-2), 25-30.
Salman Rushdie's "The Location of Brazil". The Imaginary Homelands of Fantastic Literature
ALBERTAZZI, SILVIA
2014
Abstract
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 of non fiction "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".I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.