Spiegelman s Imaginary Homelands By Salman Rushdie

Spiegelman’s Imaginary Homelands An author’s background and past life has a vast influence on his or her writing and can be the foundation of their material. Imaginary Homelands by Salman Rushdie depicts the criteria for a successful or unsuccessful work of literature. His input on an author having past correlations, separate identities, and memories to right their novel is shown in the writings of Art Spiegelman’s Maus series. Spiegelman demonstrates that the connections from where you are from, the identities you have, and the memories you hold have an immense impact on an author’s narrative. No matter where you end up in at the end of your life, you will always have a connection of where you are from and the influence it has had throughout your existence. It is a part of who you are today. An author’s past can greatly affect his or her own literatures and can be the outcome of a successful or unsuccessful work of literature. Rushdie reveals, â€Å"And amazingly, there it was; his name, our old address, the unchanged unmentionable country across the border. It was an eerie discovery. I felt as if I were being claimed, or informed that the facts of my faraway life were illusions, and that this continuity was the reality† (Rushdie 9). In this passage, Salman Rushdie reflects on his experience of revisiting his hometown, Bombay. He labels it as â€Å"my lost city† that he has not seen since almost half of his life. The interpretation of his arrival is abnormal. Rushdie feels as if he