The End of Imagination
by Arundhati Roy
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With a new introduction by Arundhati Roy, this new collection begins with her path breaking book The Cost of Living-published soon after she won the Booker Prize for her novel The God of Small Things-in which she forcefully condemned India's nuclear tests and its construction of enormous dam projects that continue to displace countless people from their homes and communities. The End of Imagination also includes her nonfiction works Power Politics, War Talk, Public Power in the Age of show more Empire, and An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire, which include her widely circulated and inspiring writings on the US invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, the need to confront corporate power, and the hollowing out of democratic institutions globally. show lessTags
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The End of Imagination brings together five of Arundhati Roy's acclaimed books of essays into one comprehensive volume for the first time and features a new introduction by the author. With an unfailing charm and wit that makes her writing constantly enlivening to read, Roy's analysis of our grotesque world is savagely clear and yet her anger never obscures her awareness that beauty, joy, and pleasure can potentially be part of the life of human beings.
De Indiase Arundhati Roy had al eerder de Booker Prize gewonnen voor De God van Kleine Dingen toen ze besloot enkele beslissingen van haar regering in New Delhi aan de kaak te stellen: de bouw van een dam in de Narmadarivier en de wapenwedloop met buurland Pakistan, resulterend in de natte droom van menige would-be-wereldmacht, de atoombom. In beide essays, eerder gepubliceerd in Indiase dagbladen, steekt ze haar verontwaardiging niet onder stoelen of banken. Hoe is het mogelijk dat een miljardenproject als de Sardar Sarovardam alleen maar méér ongelijkheid tussen de Indiërs teweegbrengt? Waarom moeten wij per se het Westen achterna lopen, het Westen waar we verder niet veel goede woorden voor over hebben, in de ontwikkeling van het show more meest destructieve wapen van allemaal? Arundhati Roy laat het buikgevoel spreken, zoals Naomi Klein en Michael Moore het haar voordeden. De andere zijde van het verhaal, die er zonder twijfel ook is, verdwijnt uit beeld. Maar is dat niet de beste manier om mensen wakker te maken?
Volledige bespreking via http://wraakvandedodo.blogspot.com/2009/10/arundhati-roy-het-einde-van-illusies.... show less
Volledige bespreking via http://wraakvandedodo.blogspot.com/2009/10/arundhati-roy-het-einde-van-illusies.... show less
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Das jüngst erschienene Essaybändchen mit dem Titel "Das Ende der Illusion" befasst sich mit zwei die indische Gesellschaft bewegenden, verändernden und aus der Sicht der Autorin bedrohenden Projekten: der Atombombe und dem Bau eines neuen, riesigen Staudammes. Beides, wie die Autorin in engagiertem Ton sachkundig durch zahlreiche Fakten unterlegt erläutert, nichts als Prestigeobjekte show more ehrgeiziger Politiker und einer kleinen Elite, die damit die Lebensgrundlage von Millionen von Menschen zerstören und den Frieden gefährden. Die auf wenigen Seiten gebündelten Informationen geben ein schlüssiges Bild von den verheerenden, nicht wiedergutzumachenden Umweltkatastrophen als notwendige Konsequenz aus beiden Projekten. show less
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Suzanna Arundhati Roy, 1961 - Suzanna Roy was born November 24, 1961. Her parents divorced and she lived with her mother Mary Roy, a social activist, in Aymanam. Her mother ran an informal school named Corpus Christi and it was there Roy developed her intellectual abilities, free from the rules of formal education. At the age of 16, she left home show more and lived on her own in a squatter's colony in Delhi. She went six years without seeing her mother. She attended Delhi School of Architecture where she met and married fellow student Gerard Da Cunha. Neither had a great interest in architecture so they quit school and went to Goa. They stayed there for seven months and returned broke. Their marriage lasted only four years. Roy had taken a job at the National Institute of Urban Affairs and, while cycling down a road; film director Pradeep Krishen offered her a small role as a tribal bimbo in Massey Saab. She then received a scholarship to study the restoration of monuments in Italy. During her eight months in Italy, she realized she was a writer. Now married to Krishen, they planned a 26-episode television epic called Banyan Tree. They didn't shoot enough footage for more than four episodes so the serial was scrapped. She wrote the screenplay for the film In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones and Electric Moon. Her next piece caused controversy. It was an article that criticized Shekar Kapur's film Bandit Queen, which was about Phoolan Devi. She accused Kapur of misrepresenting Devi and it eventually became a court case. Afterwards, finished with film, she concentrated on her writing, which became the novel "A God of Small Things." It is based on what it was like growing up in Kerala. The novel contains mild eroticism and again, controversy found Roy having a public interest petition filed to remove the last chapter because of the description of a sexual act. It took Roy five years to write "A God of Small Things" and was released April 4, 1997 in Delhi. It received the Booker prize in London in 1997 and has topped the best-seller lists around the world. Roy is the first non-expatriate Indian author and the first Indian woman to win the Booker prize. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title*
- Het einde van illusies
- Original publication date
- 1999
- Important places*
- Sardar Sarovardam, India
- Disambiguation notice*
- Bevat twee essays: Het algemeen welzijn en Het einde van de verbeelding. Oorspronkelijke titel The Cost Of Living
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- 355.033554 — Society, Government, and Culture Public administration & military science The Military - Land, Air & Sea / Warfare National Security National Security Military Policy and Grand Strategy Asia Indian Subcontinent
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- PR9499.3 .R59 .E53 — Language and Literature English English Literature English literature: Provincial, local, etc.
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