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As the United States pushes for war on Iraq Arundhati Roy the internationallyacclaimed author of The God of Small Things addresses issues of democracyand dissent racism and empire and war and peace in this collection of newessays.The eloquence passion and political insight of Roys politicalessays have added legions of readers to those already familiar with her BookerPrizewinning novel. Invited to lecture as part of the prestigious Lannan Foundation series on the first anniversary of the unconscionable attacks ofSeptember 11 2001 Roy challenged those who equate dissent with being antiAmerican. Her previous essays on globalization and dissent have led many tosee Roy as Indias most impassioned critic of globalization and Americaninfluence New York Times.War Talk collects new essays by thisprolific writer. Her work highlights the global rise of religious and racialviolence. From the horrific pogroms against Muslims in Gujarat India to U.S.demands for a war on Iraq Roy confronts the call to militarism. Desperatelyworking against the backdrop of the nuclear recklessness between her homelandand Pakistan she calls into question the equation of nation and ethnicity. Andthroughout her essays Roy interrogates her own roles as writer andactivist.If Roy continues to upset the globalization applecart like aTom Paine pamphleteer she will either be greatly honored or thrown in jailwrote Pawl Hawken in Wired Magazine. In fact she was jailed in March 2002 whenIndias Supreme Court found Roy in contempt of the court after months ofattempting to silence her criticism of the government.Fully annotatedversions of all Roys mostrecent essays including her acclaimed LannanFoundation lecture from September 2002 are included in War Talk. ArundhatiRoy is the winner of the Lannan Foundations Prize for Cultural Freedom 2002and will be returning to the U.S. in association with the Lannan Foundatio «
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