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My seditious heart : collected nonfiction / Arundhati Roy.
Van Pelt Library PR9499.3 .R59 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Roy, Arundhati, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English essays.
- India--Social conditions.
- India.
- Social conditions.
- India--Politics and government.
- Politics and government.
- English essays--India.
- Genre:
- Essays.
- Physical Description:
- xxv, 1000 pages : map ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, 2019.
- Summary:
- "Bookended by her two extraordinary novels, The God of Small Things (1997) and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness (2017), My Seditious Heart collects the work of a two-decade period when Arundhati Roy devoted herself to the political essay as a way of opening up space for justice, rights, and freedoms in an increasingly hostile environment. Radical and superbly readable, the essays speak in a voice of unique spirit, marked by compassion, clarity, and courage. Roy offers a powerful 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."--Amazon.com.
- Contents:
- The End of Imagination p. 1
- The Greater Common Good p. 25
- Power Politics: The Reincarnation of Rumpelstiltskin p. 76
- The Ladies Have Feelings, So ... Shall We Leave It to the Experts? p. 106
- The Algebra of Infinite Justice p. 126
- War Is Peace p. 138
- On Citizens' Rights to Express Dissent p. 150
- Democracy: Who Is She When She's at Home? p. 160
- War Talk: Summer Games with Nuclear Bombs p. 177
- Ahimsa (Nonviolent Resistance) p. 182
- Come September p. 187
- The Loneliness of Noam Chomsky p. 206
- Confronting Empire p. 221
- Peace Is War: The Collateral Damage of Breaking News p. 227
- An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire p. 242
- Instant-Mix Imperial Democracy (Buy One, Get One Free) p. 254
- When the Saints Go Marching Out: The Strange Fate of Martin, Mohandas, and Mandela p. 273
- In Memory of Shankar Guha Niyogi p. 280
- Do Turkeys Enjoy Thanksgiving? p. 284
- How Deep Shall We Dig? p. 293
- The Road to Harsud p. 309
- Public Power in the Age of Empire p. 329
- Peace and the New Corporate Liberation Theology p. 355
- Breaking the News p. 363
- "And His Life Should Become Extinct": The Very Strange Story of the Attack on the Indian Parliament p. 375
- Custodial Confessions, the Media, and the Law p. 404
- Listening to Grasshoppers: Genocide, Denial, and Celebration p. 408
- Azadi p. 433
- Nine Is Not Eleven (and November Isn't September) p. 447
- Democracy's Failing Light p. 463
- Mr. Chidambaram's War p. 489
- The President Took the Salute p. 507
- Walking with the Comrades p. 511
- Trickledown Revolution p. 569
- Kashmir's Fruits of Discord p. 606
- I'd Rather Not Be Anna p. 612
- Speech to the People's University p. 618
- Capitalism: A Ghost Story p. 621
- A Perfect Day for Democracy p. 654
- The Consequences of Hanging Afzal Guru p. 660
- The Doctor and the Saint: The Ambedkar-Gandhi Debate p. 668
- Professor, P.O.W. p. 787
- My Seditious Heart p. 795.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781608466733
- 1608466736
- 9781608466764
- 1608466760
- OCLC:
- 1104497181
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