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The End Of Imagination
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Author : Arundhati Roy
language : en
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Release Date : 2016-08-29
The End Of Imagination written by Arundhati Roy and has been published by Haymarket Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-29 with Political Science categories.
Five books of essays in one volume from the Booker Prize–winner and “one of the most ambitious and divisive political essayists of her generation” (The Washington Post). With a new introduction by Arundhati Roy, this new collection begins with her pathbreaking book The Cost of Living—published soon after she won the Booker Prize for her novel The God of Small Things—in which she forcefully condemned India’s nuclear tests and its construction of enormous dam projects that continue to displace countless people from their homes and communities. The End of Imagination also includes her nonfiction works Power Politics, War Talk, Public Power in the Age of Empire, and An Ordinary Person’s Guide to Empire, which include her widely circulated and inspiring writings on the US invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, the need to confront corporate power, and the hollowing out of democratic institutions globally. Praise for Arundhati Roy “The fierceness with which Arundhati Roy loves humanity moves my heart.” —Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize–winning author and recipient of the LennonOno Grant for Peace Award “Arundhati Roy combines her brilliant style as a novelist with her powerful commitment to social justice in producing these eloquent, penetrating essays.” —Howard Zinn, author of Political Awakenings and Indispensable Zinn “Arundhati Roy is incandescent in her brilliance and her fearlessness. And in these extraordinary essays—which are clarions for justice, for witness, for a true humanity—Roy is at her absolute best.” —Junot Díaz, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao “One of the most confident and original thinkers of our time.” —Naomi Klein, author of No Is Not Enough and The Battle For Paradise “Arundhati Roy calls for ‘factual precision’ alongside of the ‘real precision of poetry.’ Remarkably, she combines those achievements to a degree that few can hope to approach.” —Noam Chomsky, leading public intellectual and author of Hopes and Prospects “India’s most impassioned critic of globalization and American influence.” —The New York Times
The Republic Of Imagination
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Author : Azar Nafisi
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2014-10-21
The Republic Of Imagination written by Azar Nafisi and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-21 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A New York Times bestseller The author of the beloved #1 New York Times bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran returns with the next chapter of her life in books—a passionate and deeply moving hymn to America Ten years ago, Azar Nafisi electrified readers with her multimillion-copy bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran, which told the story of how, against the backdrop of morality squads and executions, she taught The Great Gatsby and other classics of English and American literature to her eager students in Iran. In this electrifying follow-up, she argues that fiction is just as threatened—and just as invaluable—in America today. Blending memoir and polemic with close readings of her favorite novels, she describes the unexpected journey that led her to become an American citizen after first dreaming of America as a young girl in Tehran and coming to know the country through its fiction. She urges us to rediscover the America of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and challenges us to be truer to the words and spirit of the Founding Fathers, who understood that their democratic experiment would never thrive or survive unless they could foster a democratic imagination. Nafisi invites committed readers everywhere to join her as citizens of what she calls the Republic of Imagination, a country with no borders and few restrictions, where the only passport to entry is a free mind and a willingness to dream.
The Cost Of Living
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Author : Arundhati Roy
language : en
Publisher: Vintage Canada
Release Date : 2010-12-10
The Cost Of Living written by Arundhati Roy and has been published by Vintage Canada this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-10 with Political Science categories.
From the bestselling author of The God of Small Things comes a scathing and passionate indictment of big government's disregard for the individual. In her Booker Prize-winning novel, The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy turned a compassionate but unrelenting eye on one family in India. Now she lavishes the same acrobatic language and fierce humanity on the future of her beloved country. In this spirited polemic, Roy dares to take on two of the great illusions of India's progress: the massive dam projects that were supposed to haul this sprawling subcontinent into the modern age--but which instead have displaced untold millions--and the detonation of India's first nuclear bomb, with all its attendant Faustian bargains. Merging her inimitable voice with a great moral outrage and imaginative sweep, Roy peels away the mask of democracy and prosperity to show the true costs hidden beneath. For those who have been mesmerized by her vision of India, here is a sketch, traced in fire, of its topsy-turvy society, where the lives of the many are sacrificed for the comforts of the few. From the Trade Paperback edition.
My Seditious Heart
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Author : Arundhati Roy
language : en
Publisher: Haymarket Books+ORM
Release Date : 2019-06-11
My Seditious Heart written by Arundhati Roy and has been published by Haymarket Books+ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-11 with Political Science categories.
Two decades of commentary by the New York Times–bestselling author: “An electrifying political essayist . . . uplifting . . . galvanizing.” —Booklist From the Booker Prize-winning author of such works as The God of Small Things and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, My Seditious Heart collects nonfiction spanning over twenty years and chronicles a battle for justice, rights, and freedoms in an increasingly hostile world. Taken together, these essays are told in a voice of unique spirit, marked by compassion, clarity, and courage. Radical and superbly readable, they speak always in defense of the collective, of the individual, and of the land, in the face of the destructive logic of financial, social, religious, military, and governmental elites. “Her lucid and probing essays offer sharp insights on a range of matters, from crony capitalism and environmental depredation to the perils of nationalism and, in her most recent work, the insidiousness of the Hindu caste system. In an age of intellectual logrolling and mass-manufactured infotainment, she continues to offer bracing ways of seeing, thinking and feeling.” —Pankaj Mishra, Time Magazine Praise for Arundhati Roy: “Arundhati Roy combines her brilliant style as a novelist with her powerful commitment to social justice in producing these eloquent, penetrating essays.” —Howard Zinn “One of the most confident and original thinkers of our time.” —Naomi Klein “The scale of what Roy surveys is staggering. Her pointed indictment is devastating.” —The New York Times Book Review
The Algebra Of Infinite Justice
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Author : Arundhati Roy
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Books India
Release Date : 2002
The Algebra Of Infinite Justice written by Arundhati Roy and has been published by Penguin Books India this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Dams categories.
A Few Weeks After India Detonated A Thermonuclear Device In 1998, Arundhati Roy Wrote The End Of Imagination . The Essay Attracted Worldwide Attention As The Voice Of A Brilliant Indian Writer Speaking Out With Clarity And Conscience Against Nuclear Weapons. Over The Next Three And A Half Years, She Wrote A Series Of Political Essays On A Diverse Range Of Momentous Subjects: From The Illusory Benefits Of Big Dams, To The Downside Of Corporate Globalization And The Us Government S War Against Terror. First Published In 2001, The Algebra Of Infinite Justice Brings Together All Of Arundhati Roy S Political Writings So Far. This Revised Paperback Edition Includes Two New Essays, Written In Early 2002: Democracy: Who S She When She S At Home , That Examines The Horrific Communal Violence In Gujarat, And War Talk: Summer Games With Nuclear Bombs , About The Threat Of Nuclear War In The Subcontinent.
The Shape Of The Beast
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Author : Arundhati Roy
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2012-08-02
The Shape Of The Beast written by Arundhati Roy and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-02 with Political Science categories.
The Shape of the Beast is our world laid bare by a mind that has consistently and unhesitatingly engaged with its changing realities and often anticipated the way things have moved in the last decade. In the fourteen interviews collected here, conducted between January 2001 and March 2008, Arundhati Roy examines the nature of state and corporate power as it has emerged during this period, and the shape that resistance movements are taking. As she speaks about people displaced by dams and industry, the genocide in Gujurat, Maoist rebels, the war in Kashmir and the global War on Terror, she raises fundamental questions about democracy, justice and non-violent protest. Unabashedly political, this is also a deeply personal collection that talks about the necessity of taking a stand and about the dilemma of guarding the private space necessary for writing in a world that demands urgent, unequivocal intervention.
An Exact Replica Of A Figment Of My Imagination
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Author : Elizabeth McCracken
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-09-30
An Exact Replica Of A Figment Of My Imagination written by Elizabeth McCracken and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-30 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
'This is the happiest story in the world with the saddest ending.' A prize-winning, successful novelist in her 30s, Elizabeth McCracken was happy to be an itinerant writer and self-proclaimed spinster. Then she fell in love, got married, and continued her life of writing, travelling, and teaching with her husband.Two years ago, she found herself in a remote part of France, waiting for the birth of her first child. This book is about what happens next. In the ninth month of her pregnancy, a baby is lost.Just over a year later, a baby is born. In a profoundly moving display of humour, heart, and unfailing generosity, McCracken tenderly presents her story: a story of true love and unfathomable sadness, of courageous recovery and bittersweet moments, of steadfast memories and deep affection.Grief walks through these pages of this remarkable book, but so do happiness and hope.
War Talk
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Author : Arundhati Roy
language : en
Publisher: South End Press
Release Date : 2003
War Talk written by Arundhati Roy and has been published by South End Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.
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Communication In Postmodern Urban Fiction
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Author : Lisann Anders
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2020-05-20
Communication In Postmodern Urban Fiction written by Lisann Anders and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-20 with Fiction categories.
We cannot imagine our world without its digital mirror anymore. We communicate to others in mediated ways and even create ourselves through our technological devices, presenting an imagined version of us to the outside world. This book is concerned with precisely this imagination of the self in an increasing digitalized society, going back to the beginning of our digital age, to the peak of postmodernism at the end of the 20th century. Looking at urban fiction from the 1980s to the early 2000s, the journey of fictional protagonists through the streets of (mostly) New York City reveals an anxiety about the loss of self in the virtual, culminating in violence and destruction. From Auster and Ellis to Palahniuk and DeLillo, this book highlights how an increasingly distanced communication triggers the imagination of violence, making it an insightful read for scholars and aficionados of city literature, postmodernism, and communication alike.
Public Power In The Age Of Empire
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Author : Arundhati Roy
language : en
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Release Date : 2011-01-04
Public Power In The Age Of Empire written by Arundhati Roy and has been published by Seven Stories Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-04 with Political Science categories.
In her major address to the 99th annual meeting of the American Sociological Association on August 16, 2004, "Public Power in the Age of Empire," broadcast nationally on C-Span Book TV and on Democracy Now! and Alternative Radio, writer Arundhati Roy brilliantly examines the limits to democracy in the world today. Bringing the same care to her prose that she brought to her Booker Prize-winning novel The God of Small Things, Roy discusses the need for social movements to contest the occupation of Iraq and the reduction of "democracy" to elections with no meaningful alternatives allowed. She explores the dangers of the "NGO-ization of resistance," shows how governments that block nonviolent dissent in fact encourage terrorism, and examines the role of the corporate media in marginalizing oppositional voices.