Betyg & recensioner av Bani

Satanic Verses

Eastern and western identites

Rushdie's masterpiece touches on the conflicts of living in two different worlds. The protagonist and the antagonist of the book are used to show how we all have to deal with identity conflicts. Rushdie succeeds to show how crossing frontiers from east to west intensifies this conflict: Rushdie says in Imaginary Homelands, "We all cross frontiers;in that sense, we are all migrants peoples."(Imaginary Homelands, 279). I really enjoyed The Satanic Verses and I recommend Rushdie's Imaginary Homelands as well.