Confrontation With the Emerging World Order

This book aims at an analysis of Arundhati Roy¿s writings in the light of the sufferings and predicaments of the downtrodden, the marginalized, and weaker ones in the socially and politically powerful society, the ongoing phenomenon of modernization, abuse of nuclear weapons, the dehumanization of the social environment and the depersonalization of human beings as represented in her nonfiction works An Ordinary Person¿s Guide to Empire, The Algebra of Infinite Justice, Power Politics, The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile, Broken Republic, The Shape of the Beast, Listening to Grasshoppers and Capitalism: A Ghost Story, the screenplay In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones, and ¿The Doctor and the Saint¿, Arundhati Roy¿s introduction to Dr. B.R. Ambedkar¿s Annihilation of Caste . ¿Confrontation with the Emerging World Order: A Socio-Political Study of Arundhati Roy¿s Writings¿ brings together some of the most compelling social and political issues broached by Roy in her works confronting the people in authority.