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Book Synopsis The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile by : David Barsamian
Download or read book The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile written by David Barsamian and published by South End Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A skillful interviewer can reveal aspects of a writer's voice in simple yet telling ways. As a novelist, Arundhati Roy is known for her lush language and intricate structure. As a political essayist, her prose is searching and fierce. All of these qualities shine through in the interviews collected by David Barsamian for Globalizing Dissent: Converations with Arundhati Roy. New and devoted readers will find that these exchanges, recorded between 2001 and 2003, add to their appreciation of Roy's previous work. Whether discussing her childhood or the problems of translation in a multilingual society, Roy and Barsamian, the producer and host of Alternative Radio, engage in a lively and accessible manner. Speaking candidly and casually, Roy describes her participation in a demonstration against the Indian dam program as, "absolutely fantastic." She jokes that her Supreme Court charge for "corrupting public morality"--in the case of her novel The God of Small Things--should have been changed to "further corrupting public morality." She calls on her training as an architect to explain what she means by the "physics of power." Like a house of cards, she argues that "unfettered power . . . cannot go berserk like this and expect to hold it all together." Roy has been acclaimed for her courage (Salman Rushdie) and her eloquence (Kirkus Reviews), and her writing has been described as "a banquet for the senses" (Newsweek). She has found a readership among fiction enthusiasts and political activists. Globalizing Dissent captures Roy speaking one-on-one to her audience, revealing her intense and wide-ranging intellect, her very personal voice, and her opinion on momentous political events. Arundhati Roy's novel The God of Small Things was awarded the Booker Prize in 1997. She is the recipient of the 2002 Lannan Foundation Prize for Cultural Freedom.
Book Synopsis The Architecture of Modern Empire by : Arundhati Roy
Download or read book The Architecture of Modern Empire written by Arundhati Roy and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2024-03-12 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revelatory and wide-ranging series of interviews with award-winning writer Arundhati Roy, touching on US empire, Indian nationalism, a writer’s work, and more. As a novelist, Arundhati Roy is known for her lush language and intricate structure. As a political essayist, her prose is searching and fierce. All of these qualities shine through in the interviews collected here by David Barsamian. This newly reissued and expanded edition, featuring interviews from 2001 to 2022 and a moving foreword by Naomi Klein, explores Roy’s evolving political thought and commitments across the tumultuous twenty-first entry. The Architecture of Modern Empire is a searing reckoning with the mechanics of power, in all its forms, and the role of imagination and creative expression in envisioning a radically different world.
Book Synopsis Shape of the Beast,The - PB by : Roy
Download or read book Shape of the Beast,The - PB written by Roy and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2009-07-13 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Dwelling in American by : John Muthyala
Download or read book Dwelling in American written by John Muthyala and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2012 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original critique of the idea of American empire in the twenty-first century
Book Synopsis Living by the Sword by : Muhammed Asadi
Download or read book Living by the Sword written by Muhammed Asadi and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2005-08-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By placing facts within their institutional context, this book uncovers the intricate connections between the military/economic alliance in America and the resulting globalization of poverty. Using the depth of the sociological imagination, the author provides a picture of reality that is often overlooked by journalists and commentators who routinely report facts detached from their sociological roots. "M. Asadi's essay on the United States war in Iraq is both passionate in its commitment to human rights and rich in its use of data. It draws skillfully on C. Wright Mills and other scholars to paint a devastating portrait of the war, but also to reflect profoundly on the policies of the United States and their human consequences all over the world." Howard Zinn Author of, A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES Nominated for the, C. Wright Mills Award of the Society for the Study of Social Problems.
Book Synopsis The Shape of the Beast by : Arundhati Roy
Download or read book The Shape of the Beast written by Arundhati Roy and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2008 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Shape Of The Beast Is Our World Laid Bare, With Great Courage, Passion And Eloquence, By A Mind That Has Engaged Unhesitatingly With Its Changing Realities, Often Anticipating 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, Among Other Things, About People Displaced By Dams And Industry, The Genocide In Gujarat, 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. Through The Conversations, Arundhati Talks About The Necessity Of Taking A Stand, As Also The Dilemma Of Guarding The Private Space Necessary For Writing In A World That Demands Urgent, Unequivocal Intervention. And In The Final Interview, She Discusses With Uncommon Candour Her Ambiguous Feelings About Success And Both The Pressures And The Freedom That Come With It.
Book Synopsis This Will Be Remembered of Her by : Megan McKenna
Download or read book This Will Be Remembered of Her written by Megan McKenna and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2010-07-15 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines stories from Scripture, of women around the world, and of folk traditions for acts of hope, courage, imagination, and compassion amid the challenges of daily life.
Book Synopsis Imperial Overstretch by : Roger Burbach
Download or read book Imperial Overstretch written by Roger Burbach and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 2004-05 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting insights into the neo-conservative personalities surrounding George W. Bush, this work is a disturbing analysis of the prospects for the US presidency and its global ambitions.
Download or read book Visionaries written by Satish Kumar and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visionaries brings together the lives and works of 100 great men and women who offered inspiration, hope and healing. The 20th century was marked by wars, dictatorships and environmental destruction, yet many individuals kept alive the hope of a sane and sustainable future through their example, ideas and vision. Their influence helped to bring to end colonialism and imperialism, apartheid and authoritarian regimes, and they also helped to foster the resurgence of an ecological, holistic and spiritual vision that increasingly resonates in the world today. Visionaries includes articles about: _ world leaders: Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, and The Dalai Lama _ spiritual figures: Krishnamurti, Desmond Tutu, Thomas Moore, and Thich Nhat Hanh _ writers: Wendell Berry, Kahlil Gibran, Aldo Leopold, and Arundhati Roy _ scientists: Rachel Carson, Jane Goodall and James Lovelock _ educators: Ivan Illich and Rabindranath Tagore _ economists: E. F. Schumacher and Muhammad Yunus _ ecological activists: Vandana Shiva, Terry Tempest Williams, and Wangari Maathai, among others within each category.
Book Synopsis When the World Outlawed War by : David Swanson
Download or read book When the World Outlawed War written by David Swanson and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2011-10-19 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a masterful account of how people in the United States and around the world worked to abolish war as a legitimate act of state policy and won in 1928, outlawing war with a treaty that is still on the books. Swanson's account of the successful work of those who came before us to insist that war be outlawed points us toward new ways of thinking about both war and political activism.
Book Synopsis Novelists in the New Millennium by : Vanessa Guignery
Download or read book Novelists in the New Millennium written by Vanessa Guignery and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-19 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of interviews with leading writers such as Julian Barnes, Jonathan Coe, Kazuo Ishiguro, Hanif Kureishi, Arundhati Roy and Will Self. Through these interviews the book explores and introduces a range of key themes in contemporary literature, raising questions about genre, history, postmodernism, celebrity culture and form.
Book Synopsis The Literary Works of Ranganathan Magadi by : Ranganathan Magadi
Download or read book The Literary Works of Ranganathan Magadi written by Ranganathan Magadi and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-01-13 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'THE LITERARY WORKS OF RANGANATHAN MAGADI' CONTAINS FOUR WORKS,NAMELY1 ENCOUNTER WITH A TERRORIST-A NOVEL2 TWILIGHT ZONE-AN ANTHOLOGY OF SHORT STORIES3 INDIA RISES IN THE WEST-BIOGRAPHIES4 BOUQUET-ANTHOLOGY OF POETRY
Book Synopsis Postcolonial Artists and Global Aesthetics by : Akinwumi Adesokan
Download or read book Postcolonial Artists and Global Aesthetics written by Akinwumi Adesokan and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-21 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when social and political processes such as globalization shape cultural production? Drawing on a range of writers and filmmakers from Africa and elsewhere, Akin Adesokan explores the forces at work in the production and circulation of culture in a globalized world. He tackles problems such as artistic representation in the era of decolonization, the uneven development of aesthetics across the world, and the impact of location and commodity culture on genres, with a distinctive approach that exposes the global processes transforming cultural forms.
Book Synopsis The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism by : Immanuel Ness
Download or read book The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism written by Immanuel Ness and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 1443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Palgrave Encyclopedia Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism objectively presents the prominent themes, epochal events, theoretical explanations, and historical accounts of imperialism from 1776 to the present. It is the most historically and academically comprehensive examination of the subject to date.
Book Synopsis The Cinema of Globalization by : Tom Zaniello
Download or read book The Cinema of Globalization written by Tom Zaniello and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom Zaniello's fascinating new guide to films about globalization—its origins, its relationship with colonialism, neocolonialism, the growth of migratory labor, and movements to counter or protest its adverse effects—offers readers and viewers the opportunity to both discover new films and see well-known works in a new way. From Afro@Digital to Zoolander, Zaniello discusses 201 films, including features such as The Constant Gardener, Dirty Pretty Things, and Syriana; documentaries and other nonfiction films such as Blue Vinyl, Darwin's Nightmare, and Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price; online films; and television productions. Zaniello casts a wide net to provide cinematic representations of globalization from all angles:-films about global labor and labor unions affected by globalization;-films about global capital and multinational corporations;-films about the transnational organizations (WB, IMF, WTO) most closely identified with globalization and global capital;-films about labor history and the daily life of working-class people as they relate to the development of globalization;-films about the environment directly related to changes in labor or capital; and-films about changes in both the workplace and the corporate office in the era of multinational corporations. Each entry in The Cinema of Globalization offers a summary of the main issues in the film and their relationship to globalization, sometimes a reference to the film's place in a director's work or tradition of cinema, and an often-opinionated assessment of the film's strengths and weaknesses. Like the best film guides, this book is an addictive reading experience full of ideas for future viewing. At the same time, it serves as an inviting and accessible introduction to a difficult topic—the central themes and aspects of globalization.To read Tom Zaniello's blog on the cinema of labor and globalization, featuring even more reviews, visit http://tzaniello.wordpress.com.
Book Synopsis Fundamentalism and Literature by : C. Pesso-Miquel
Download or read book Fundamentalism and Literature written by C. Pesso-Miquel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-01-08 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the manifold connections between fundamentalism and literature in English. Carefully selected case studies and surveys document an unexpected richness and variety in this unlikely relationship
Download or read book Not in Our Name written by Jesse Stellato and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2012-07-16 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not in Our Name collects and analyzes the most important antiwar speeches in American history. It is a book about the origins and consequences of America’s wars, but also about the integrity and sacrifices of those who fought on the front lines of dissent. By telling the stories of the people who spoke out in good-faith disagreement with their government and fellow citizens, Not in Our Name records some of the most compelling acts of courage in American politics and some of the most passionate, beautiful, and mighty speeches in American history. In Not in Our Name, Jesse Stellato presents the history of American antiwar speeches in a readable way that is neither pacifist nor partisan, featuring speakers with diverse backgrounds and political beliefs. By combining historical research with a review of classical Greek and Roman rhetorical theory, Not in Our Name also helps answer a fundamental question: “What makes a great antiwar speech?”
