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010 2020045406
020 9781642592603|q(hardcover)
020 |z9781642593808|q(ebook)
020 1642592609
035 (OCoLC)1144105003
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050 00 DS421.5|b.R78 2020
082 00 323.440954|223
100 1 Roy, Arundhati,|eauthor.
245 10 Azadi :|bFreedom. Fascism. Fiction. /|cArundhati Roy.
263 2102
264 1 Chicago, Illinois :|bHaymarket Books,|c2020.
300 229 pages ;|c20 cm
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent
337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia
338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier
500 Includes index.
504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-214) and
index.
505 0 In What Language Does Rain Fall Over Tormented Cities? The
Weather Underground in The Ministry of Utmost Happiness --
Election Season in a Dangerous Democracy -- Our Captured,
Wounded Hearts -- A Language of Literature -- The Silence
Is the Loudest Sound -- Intimations of an Ending: The Rise
and Rise of the Hindu Nation -- The Graveyard Talks Back:
-- Fiction in the Time of Fake News -- There Is Fire in
the Ducts, the System Is Failing -- The Pandemic Is a
Portal
520 "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 has also
become the chant of millions on the streets of India
against the project of Hindu nationalism. Just 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 nonsense of international
borders, incarcerating whole populations, and bringing the
modern world to a halt like nothing else ever could. In a
series of electrifying essays, Arundhati Roy challenges us
to reflect on the meaning of freedom in a world of growing
authoritarianism. She writes of the existential threat
posed to Indian democracy by an emboldened Hindu
nationalism, of the internet shutdown and information
siege in Kashmir-the most densely militarized zone in the
world-and of India's new citizenship laws that
discriminate against Muslims and marginalized communities,
which could create a crisis of statelessness on a scale
previously unknown. 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"--
|cProvided by publisher.
648 7 2000-2099|2fast
650 0 Hindutva|zIndia.
650 7 Politics and government.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01919741
651 0 India|xIntellectual life.
651 0 India|xCivilization|y21st century.
651 0 India|xPolitics and government|y1977-
651 0 India|xSocial conditions|y1947-
651 7 India|zJammu and Kashmir.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01207110
655 7 Essays.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01919922
655 7 Essays.|2lcgft
776 08 |iOnline version:|aRoy, Arundhati,|tAzadi|dChicago :
Haymarket Books, 2021.|z9781642593808|w(DLC) 2020045407
994 C0|bGPI