Globalizing Dissent Essays on Arundhati Roy [Hardcover]

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 todays 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.

Prologue Antonia Navarro-Tejero  Part I: The Writer, the Artist  1. The (In)fusion of Sociology and Literary Fantasy: Arundhati Roy, Salman Rushdie, Ulrich Beck, and the Reinvention of Politics Jesse T. Airaudi  2. Where Tomorrow?: The God of Small Thingsas Derridean Ghost Story  Cara Cilano  3. In-Between and Elsewhere: Liminality in Arundhati Roys The God of Small Things Anna Froula  4. Beyond Anti-Communism: The Progressive Politics of The God of Small Things Pranav Jani  5. The History House: The Magic of Contained Space in Arundhati Roys The God of Small Things Sara Upstone  6. City and Non-City: Political and Gender Issues in InWhich Annie Gives It Those Ones Joel Kuortti  Part II: The Writer, the Al“7