Globalizing Dissent (eBook, ePUB)

Essays on Arundhati Roy
Redaktion: Ghosh, Ranjan; Navarro-Tejero, Antonia

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This edited collection examines Arundhati Roy beyond the aesthetic parameters of her fiction, focusing also on her creative activism and struggles in global politics. The chapters travel to and fro between her non-fictional works - engaging activism on the streets and global forums - and its underlying roots in her novel.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Januar 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135844707
• Artikelnr.: 38246289

Autorenporträt

Ranjan Ghosh teaches in the Department of English, University of North Bengal. He is also Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, Federal Govt. of Germany. Antonia Navarro-Tejero is Professor of English Literature at Universidad de Córdoba (Spain), and a 2004-2005 Fulbright scholar at University of California, Berkeley.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue Antonia Navarro-Tejero Part I: The Writer, the Artist 1. "The
(In)fusion of Sociology and Literary Fantasy: Arundhati Roy, Salman
Rushdie, Ulrich Beck, and the Reinvention of Politics" Jesse T. Airaudi 2.
"Where 'Tomorrow'?: The God of Small Things as Derridean Ghost Story" Cara
Cilano 3. "In-Between and Elsewhere: Liminality in Arundhati Roy's The God
of Small Things" Anna Froula 4. "Beyond 'Anti-Communism': The Progressive
Politics of The God of Small Things" Pranav Jani 5. "The History House: The
Magic of Contained Space in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things" Sara
Upstone 6. "City and Non-City: Political and Gender Issues in In Which
Annie Gives It Those Ones" Joel Kuortti Part II: The Writer, the Activist,
the Intellectual 7. "Committed Writing, Committed Writer?" Emilienne
Baneth-Nouailhetas 8. "More to the Point, Less Composed: An Essay on the
Analytic Style of Noam Chomsky and Arundathi Roy" Padmaja Challakere 9.
"How to Tell a Story to Change the World: Arundhati Roy, Globalization and
Environmental Feminism" Susan Comfort 10. "Home and the World: the Multiple
Citizenships of Arundhati Roy" Gurleen Grewal 11. "The Limits of Dissent:
Arundhati Roy and the Struggle Against the Narmada Dams" David Jefferess
Epilogue Ranjan Ghosh