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false <![CDATA[War Talk]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166054167m/9774.jpg 9774 2 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. 12564 1 4 2003 War Talk total:336|5:119|4:142|3:61|2:13|1:1| 336 1373 475 32 5 2 false false Sat Aug 02 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 26 12:10:44 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 02 09:06:50 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Tue May 05 20:19:13 -0700 2009 Tue May 05 20:24:39 -0700 2009 Love this...more...]]> 0 0 false false Fri May 25 06:04:13 -0700 2007 Fri May 25 06:04:18 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Oct 21 17:05:54 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 01 08:59:40 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 08 16:45:20 -0700 2009 "The threshold of horror has been ratcheted up so high that nothing short of genocide or the prospect of nuclear war merits mention.... The underlying principle of the War Against Terror, the very notion that war is an acceptable solution to terr...more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Jun 11 10:50:46 -0700 2007 Mon Jun 11 10:50:46 -0700 2007 برای کسانی که رمان "خداوندگار چیزهای کوچک" را خوانده ان�...more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed May 14 08:50:02 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 15 05:53:40 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Jan 10 20:19:32 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 28 20:47:53 -0800 2008
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