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Great essays on Imperialism, Chomsky, the Hindu Right and an excellent critique on violence.
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War Talk
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As the United States pushes for war on Iraq, Arundhati Roy, the internationally acclaimed author of The God of Small Things, addresses issues of democracy and dissent, racism and empire, and war and peace in this collection of new essays. The eloquence, passion, and political insight of Roy’s political essays have added legions of readers to those already familiar with her Booker Prize-winning novel. -Invited to lecture as part of the prestigious Lannan -Foundation series on the first anniversary of the unconscionable attacks of September 11, 2001, Roy challenged those who equate dissent with being "anti-American." Her previous essays on globalization and dissent have led many to see Roy as "India's most impassioned critic of globalization and American influence" ( New York Times ). War Talk collects new essays by this prolific writer. Her work highlights the global rise of religious and racial violence. From the horrific pogroms against Muslims in Gujarat, India, to U.S. demands for a war on Iraq, Roy confronts the call to militarism. Desperately working against the backdrop of the nuclear recklessness between her homeland and Pakistan, she calls into question the equation of nation and ethnicity. And throughout her essays, Roy interrogates her own roles as "writer" and "activist." "If [Roy] continues to upset the globalization applecart like a Tom Paine pamphleteer, she will either be greatly honored or thrown in jail," wrote Pawl Hawken in Wired Magazine. In fact she was jailed in March 2002, when -India's Supreme Court found Roy in contempt of the court after months of attempting to silence her criticism of the government. Fully annotated versions of all Roy's most recent -essays, including her acclaimed Lannan Foundation -lecture from September 2002, are included in War Talk . Arundhati Roy is the winner of the Lannan Foundation’s Prize for Cultural Freedom, 2002, and will be returning to the U.S. in association with the Lannan Foundation in 2003. Roy’s most recent collection of essays, Power Politics , now in its second edition, sold over 25,000 copies in its first 12 months.
152 pages, Paperback
First published April 1,2003
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152 pages, Paperback
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April 1, 2003 by South End Press
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9780896087248
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0896087247
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English
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Excellent
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can you have a political affair?
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coherent, concise, and downright maddening. this woman is a genius.
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This is a great book that I would love to give my dad. Roy's work is a perfect example of how one can write beautifully about the awful real world.
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Eloquent, unflinching, and as lucid in writing as in outlook. Maddening and necessary reading.
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inspiring, moving, informative, a call into commonality for all people in this world aching and aghast in the horror of global corporate empire and the wars it brings to seemingly every corner of the globe. Roy's novels have been on my to read list for a long time and I'm glad to have read this series of essays to frame my eventual reading. I feel my spirit revitalized and strengthened by reading her words. a sober reminder of what we're up against and also a vital reinvigoration of how immensely imperative it is to resist the numb defeatist tendrils of cynicism.
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Not as good as The God of Small Things
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