Azadi: Fascism, Fiction, and Freedom in the Time of the Virus (Expanded Second E

Description: Azadi by Arundhati Roy From the best-selling author of My Seditious Heart and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, a new and pressing dispatch from the heart of the crowd and the solitude of the writers desk. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Winner of the European Essay Prize 2023 The chant of "Azadi!"--Urdu for "Freedom!"--is the slogan of the freedom struggle in Kashmir against what Kashmiris see as the Indian Occupation. Ironically, it also became the chant of millions on the streets of India against the project of Hindu Nationalism. Even as Arundhati Roy began to ask what lay between these two calls for Freedom--a chasm or a bridge?--the streets fell silent. Not only in India, but all over the world. The coronavirus brought with it another, more terrible understanding of Azadi, making a nonsense of international borders, incarcerating whole populations, and bringing the modern world to a halt like nothing else ever could. In this series of electrifying essays, Arundhati Roy challenges us to reflect on the meaning of freedom in a world of growing authoritarianism. The essays include meditations on language, public as well as private, and on the role of fiction and alternative imaginations in these disturbing times. The pandemic, she says, is a portal between one world and another. For all the illness and devastation it has left in its wake, it is an invitation to the human race, an opportunity, to imagine another world. Author Biography Arundhati Roy studied architecture in New Delhi, where she now lives. She is the author of the novels The God of Small Things, for which she received the 1997 Booker Prize, and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness. A collection of her essays from the past twenty years, My Seditious Heart, was recently published by Haymarket Books. Review "Arundhati Roy uses the essay as a form of combat, analysing fascism and the way it is being structured.... Her essays offer shelter to a multitude of people. In awarding the prize for her literary work, the jury is also acknowledging the authors commitment to political action." --2023 Prix Européen de lEssai jury "Arundhati Roy is one of the most confident and original thinkers of our time."--Naomi Klein "Roys... nonfictional engagement with the conflicts and traumas of a heedlessly globalized world has manifested the virtues of an unflinching emotional as well as political intelligence... In an age of intellectual logrolling and mass-manufactured infotainment, she continues to offer bracing ways of seeing, thinking and feeling."--Pankaj Mishra "No writer today, in India or anywhere in the world, writes with the kind of beautiful, piercing prose in defense of the wretched of the earth that Roy does.... Roy the essayist embodies the legalistic but humanistic ruthlessness of a public defender, the wit and wordplay of a poet, a comrade who takes no injustice as a given." --Jacobin"Arundhati Roys Azadi is a collection of essays and speeches describing Indias recent descent into totalitarianism that speaks to the heart and the mind. Intelligent and thoughtful and written with empathy, it brings the reality of the situation home in way few other writers can." --Seattle Post-Intelligencer Review Text "Arundhati Roys Azadi is a collection of essays and speeches describing Indias recent descent into totalitarianism that speaks to the heart and the mind. Intelligent and thoughtful and written with empathy, it brings the reality of the situation home in way few other writers can." --Seattle Post-Intelligencer "Arundhati Roy is one of the most confident and original thinkers of our time." --Naomi Klein "Roys ... nonfictional engagement with the conflicts and traumas of a heedlessly globalized world has manifested the virtues of an unflinching emotional as well as political intelligence.... In an age of intellectual logrolling and mass-manufactured infotainment, she continues to offer bracing ways of seeing, thinking and feeling." --Pankaj Mishra "No writer today, in India or anywhere in the world, writes with the kind of beautiful, piercing prose in defense of the wretched of the earth that Roy does.... Roy the essayist embodies the legalistic but humanistic ruthlessness of a public defender, the wit and wordplay of a poet, a comrade who takes no injustice as a given." --Jacobin Description for Sales People --The chant of Azadi! Azadi! is Urdu for "Freedom! Freedom!", the slogan of the Kashmiri freedom struggle and the womens movement in India. In her latest collection, Roy builds a shelter, fortified with words of strength and courage that welcomes readers and writers alike to reflect on the meaning of freedom in a world besieged by rising temperatures and growing authoritarianism. --Azadi examines the complexities of writing in the language of the oppressor, and lays out the high-stakes in the struggle for independence in Kashmir--the most densely militarized zone in the world. Roy further looks at India, the fifth largest economy of the world, and asks how a country that clams to be a democracy can keep so much of its population hungry, poor, and disenfranchised. The book concludes with a brilliant mediation on the nature of fiction in the era of Fake news. --Arundhati Roy crafts a message infused with hope and inspiration at a moment when azadi hangs in the balance for us all. Details ISBN1642597066 Short Title Azadi Publisher Haymarket Books Language English Year 2022 ISBN-10 1642597066 ISBN-13 9781642597066 Format Paperback Publication Date 2022-04-26 Author Arundhati Roy Pages 320 Imprint Haymarket Books Subtitle Fascism, Fiction, and Freedom in the Time of the Virus (Expanded Second Edition) DEWEY 323.440954 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:135098749;

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