Lunch With a Bigot ? The Writer in the World
The Writer in the World
Publisher: MD ? Duke University Press
Date of Publication: 3 May 2024
Number of Volumes: Cloth over boards
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Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9780822359111 |
| ISBN10: | 0822359111 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | 240 pages |
| Size: | 229x152x15 mm |
| Weight: | 216 g |
| Language: | English |
| 700 |
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Short description:
The twenty-six essays in Lunch With a Bigot are examples of how Amitava Kumar turns his observations of the world into words. A mix of memoir, reportage, thoughts on the craft of writing, and criticism, these essays tell broad stories of immigration, change, and a shift to a more globalized existence.
Long description:
To be a writer, Amitava Kumar says, is to be an observer. The twenty-six essays in Lunch with a Bigot are Kumar's observations of the world put into words. A mix of memoir, reportage, and criticism, the essays include encounters with writers Salman Rushdie and Arundhati Roy, discussions on the craft of writing, and a portrait of the struggles of a Bollywood actor. The title essay is Kumar's account of his visit to a member of an ultra-right Hindu organization who put him on a hit-list. In these and other essays, Kumar tells a broader story of immigration, change, and a shift to a more globalized existence, all the while demonstrating how he practices being a writer in the world.
“Heterogeneous and complex, this book offers insight into Indian culture from a multitude of complex spaces between East and West. An exuberantly inquisitive collection of essays.”
