Kumar A Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of His Arm a Tiny Bomb

1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9135-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 232 Seiten

Part reportage and part protest, an inquiry into the cultural logic and global repercussions of the war on terror, with particular focus on the United States and India.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kumar, Amitava

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Terrorismus, Religiöser Fundamentalismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments xi

Prologue: A Missile in the Living Room 1

Introduction: Have You Seen This Man? 13

Part I. Lakhani

1. Birth of a Salesman 33

2. The Late Career of the Sting Operation 58

3. The Art of Surveillance 66

4. The Terror and the Pity 92

Part II. Siraj

5. I Have Delivered the Pizza 111

6. A Collaborator in Kashmir 141

7. A Night in an Army Camp 151

8. Tourist-Theorist-Terrorist 162

Epilogue: We Are the World 179

Notes 186

Bibliography 199

Index 202

Über Autor(innen)

Amitava Kumar is a novelist, poet, journalist, and Professor of English at Vassar College. He is the author of Husband of a Fanatic, a New York Times “Editors’ Choice”; Bombay-London-New York, a New Statesman (UK) “Book of the Year”; and Passport Photos. He is the editor of several books, including Away: The Indian Writer as an Expatriate, The Humour and the Pity: Essays on V.S. Naipaul, and World Bank Literature. He is also an editor of the online journal Politics and Culture and the screenwriter and narrator of the prize-winning documentary film Pure Chutney. Kumar’s writing has appeared in the Nation, Harper’s, Vanity Fair, American Prospect, the Chronicle of Higher Education, the Hindu, and other publications in North America and India.