| Globalizing Dissent: Essays on Arundhati Roy Contributor(s): Ghosh, Ranjan (Editor), Navarro-Tejero, Antonia (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0415995590 ISBN-13: 9780415995597 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $180.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2008 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Women Authors - Literary Criticism | Asian - Indic - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 823.914 |
| LCCN: 2008026704 |
| Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (0.95 lbs) 214 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Cultural Region - Indian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Arundhati Roy is not only an accomplished novelist, but equally gifted in unraveling the politics of globalization, the power and ideology of corporate culture, fundamentalism, terrorism, and other issues gripping today's world. This volume - featuring prominent scholars from throughout the world - examines 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. Roy is examined as a novelist, non-fiction writer, journalist, activist, feminist, screenwriter, ideologist, and architect. This volume presents Roy's interlocking network of the ideas, attitudes and ideologies that emerge from the contemporary social and the political world. |