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portada My Seditious Heart: Collected Nonfiction
Type
Physical Book
Year
2019
Language
English
Pages
971
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
19.8 x 12.2 x 5.3 cm
Weight
0.91 kg.
ISBN13
9781608466733

My Seditious Heart: Collected Nonfiction

Arundhati Roy (Author) · Haymarket Books · Paperback

My Seditious Heart: Collected Nonfiction - Arundhati Roy

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Synopsis "My Seditious Heart: Collected Nonfiction "

Praise for Arundhati Roy: "Arundhati Roy combines her brilliant style as a novelist with her powerful commitment to social justice in producing these eloquent, penetrating essays." --Howard Zinn"Arundhati Roy is one of the most confident and original thinkers of our time." --Naomi Klein"The scale of what Roy surveys is staggering. Her pointed indictment is devastating." --The New York Times Book ReviewBookended by her two award-winning novels, The God of Small Things (1997) and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness (2017), My Seditious Heart collects the work of a two-decade period when Arundhati Roy devoted herself to the political essay as a way of opening up space for justice, rights, and freedoms in an increasingly hostile world. Taken together, the essays speak in a voice of unique spirit, marked by compassion, clarity, and courage. Radical and superbly readable, they speak always in defense of the collective, of the individual and of the land, in the face of the destructive logic of financial, social, religious, military, and governmental elites.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. She has written several nonfiction books, including Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers, Capitalism: A Ghost Story, Walking with the Comrades, Things That Can and Cannot Be Said (with John Cusack), and The End of Imagination. She is the recipient of the 2002 Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize.
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Arundhati Roy, nacida como Suzanna Arundhati Roy el 24 de noviembre de 1961 en Shillong, India, es una escritora, novelista y activista política conocida por su combinación de prosa poética y crítica social. Hija de una madre dedicada a los derechos de las mujeres y de un padre que trabajaba en plantaciones de té, vivió parte de su infancia en Kerala, lo que influiría fuertemente en su sentido del lugar, la memoria y la desigualdad social.

Estudió arquitectura, pero pronto dio un giro hacia la escritura, el cine y el activismo. Su primera novela, El dios de las pequeñas cosas, publicada en 1997, fue un éxito internacional y le valió el prestigioso Booker Prize, lo que la estableció como una voz literaria poderosa. Más tarde volvió a la ficción con El ministerio de la felicidad suprema, pero gran parte de su obra se dedica a ensayos y artículos donde aborda temas como la injusticia social, los derechos humanos, el medio ambiente, el colonialismo interno, la política india contemporánea y los efectos del capitalismo.

Arundhati es también una voz crítica y polémica: ha participado en protestas, debates y movimientos sociales, expresando oposición a políticas estatales que considera discriminatorias, destructivas para el entorno natural, o violatorias de los derechos de comunidades vulnerables. Su escritura no sólo busca narrar, sino denunciar. Vive en Delhi, y su obra literaria y activista ha sido traducida a múltiples idiomas, influyendo en amplios círculos más allá de la India.
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