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Pareto and Political Theory Edited by Ranjan Ghosh & Joseph Femia Antonia Navarro-Tejero 49. German Political Philosophy The Metaphysics of Law Chris Thornhill Globalizing Dissent Essays on Arundhati Roy Edited by Ranjan Ghosh & Antonia Navarro-Tejero New York London First published 2009 by Routledge 270 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10016 Simultaneously published in the UK by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2008. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk.” © 2009 Taylor & Francis All rights reserved. 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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
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