Author: Brinda Karat
Foreword/Introductio: Bill Ashcroft
Publisher: Pencraft International
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 211
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8185753768
Description
This volume brings together several of the seminal studies on Arundhati Roy, the author of intense and absorbing fiction as w ell as richly thought-out non-fiction. The contributors, all widely acknowledged scholars from India and the West, problematize the varied yet amazingly cohering aspects of Roy’s entire oeuvre; and offer a sophisticated and incisive critique of her published work to-date.
What recurringly comes under close scrutiny is the tension and strife triggered by hierarchical structures of our making; and the appropriations of individuals, communities and societies lethally trapped at the lower rungs of hierarchy under neocolonial dispensation. Sharply focused and highly perceptive, the volume makes for an arresting an delightful reading of the literary and cultural landscape of Arundhati Roy, exploring the deep and abiding concerns of one of the finest contemporary writers in English from the Indian subcontinent.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Bill Ashcroft
Introduction
Murari Prasad
The Currency of Arundhati Roy
AMITAVA KUMAR
Reading Arundhati Roy Politically
AIJAZ AHAMAD
Dangerous Artisans: Anarchic Labour in
Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient and
Anil’s Ghost and Arundhati Roy’s
The god of Small things
DEVON CAMPBELL-HALL
The God of Small Things: Arundhati Roy’s
Postcolonial Cosmopolitanism
ALEX TICKELL
Circular time: A Study of Narrative Techniques in
Arundhati Roy’s The God of small Things
MADHU BENOIT
In desire and in Death: Eroticism as Politics in
Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things
BRINDA BOSE
Power Relationships in The God of
Small Things
ANTONIA NAVARRO-TEJERO
“Globalizing Dissent”? Arundhati Roy, Local and
Postcolonial Feminisms in the transnational Economy
JULIE MULLANEY
Tallying Bodied: the Moral Math of
Arundhati Roy’s Non-fiction
BISHNUPRIYA GHOSH
Articulating the Marginal: Arundhati Roy’s
Writings
MURARI PRASAD
Interview: A Writer’s Place in Society
N. RAM IN CONVERATION WITH ARUNDAHTI ROY
Select Bibliography
Contributors
Index