Our physical alienation from India almost inevitably means that we will not be capable of reclaiming precisely the thing that was lost; that we will, in short, create fictions, not actual cities or villages, but invisible ones, imaginary homelands, Indias of the mind. […] It may be argued that the past is a country from which we have all emigrated […], but I suggest that the writer who is out-of-country and even out-of-language may experience this loss in an intensified form.
RUSHDIE, S. Imaginary Homelands. Londres: Vintage Books, 2010 (adaptado).
Nesse fragmento de texto, ao abordar a literatura anglo-indiana, o autor Salman Rushdie ressalta a relação entre criação literária e
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