Globalizing Dissent: Essays on Arundhati Roy (Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought)

231 Pages·2008·1.91 MB·English

by  Ranjan Ghosh

Globalizing Dissent
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Globalizing Dissent
Essays on Arundhati Roy
Edited by Ranjan Ghosh &
Antonia Navarro-Tejero
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Globalizing dissent : essays on Arundhati Roy / edited by Ranjan Ghosh & Antonia
Navarro-Tejero.
p. cm. — (Routledge studies in social and political thought ; 60)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Roy, Arundhati—Criticism and interpretation. I. Ghosh, Ranjan. II. Navarro
Tejero, Antonia.
PR9499.3.R59Z58 2009
809.3—dc22
2008026704
ISBN 0-203-88508-2 Master e-book ISBN
ISBN10: 0-415-99559-0 (hbk)
ISBN10: 0-203-88508-2 (ebk)
ISBN13: 978-0-415-99559-7 (hbk)
ISBN13: 978-0-203-88508-6 (ebk)
Ranjan Ghosh’s dedication:
To all the small things, for which we need no God
Antonia Navarro-Tejero’s dedication:
For Andrés, Nardi, and their twins, David and Sergio

Contents
Acknowledgments xi
Prologue xiii
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 3
JESSE T. AIRAUDI
2 Where “Tomorrow”?: The God of Small Things as
Derridean Ghost Story 25
CARA CILANO
3 In-Between and Elsewhere: Liminality in Arundhati Roy’s
The God of Small Things 39
ANNA FROULA
4 Beyond “Anticommunism”: The Progressive Politics of
The God of Small Things 47
PRANAV JANI
5 The History House: The Magic of Contained Space in
Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things 71
SARA UPSTONE