Kumar Lunch With a Bigot

The Writer in the World
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7539-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kumar, Amitava

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Tourismus & Reise Reise & Urlaub: Führer, Landkarten, Pläne

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Author's Note xi

Part I. Reading

1. Paper 3

2. My Hanif Kureishi Life 14

3. The Map of My Village 29

4. The Poetry of Gujarat Riots 32

5. Conversation with Arundhati Roy 37

6. Salman Rushdie and Me 51

7. Bad News 58

Part II. Writing

8. How to Write a Novel 79

9. Reading Like a Writer 84

10. Writing My Own Satya 97

11. Dead Bastards 106

12. The Writer as a Father 110

13. Ten Rules of Writing 119

Part III. Places

14. Mofussil Junction 127

15. A Collaboration in Kashmir 132

16. At the Jaipur Literature Festival 141

17. Hotel Leeward 146

18. The Mines of Jadugoda 151

19. Upon Arrival in the Past 155

20. Bookstores of New York 162

Part IV. People

21. Lunch with a Bigot 169

22. The Boxer on the Flight 183

23. Amartya's Birth 187

24. The Taxi Drivers of New York 192

25. On Being Brown in America 196

26. Missing Person 201

Index 213

Über Autor(innen)

Amitava Kumar is Helen D. Lockwood Professor of English at Vassar College. He is the author of A Matter of Rats: A Short Biography of Patna, A Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of His Arm a Tiny Bomb, and Nobody Does the Right Thing, all also published by Duke University Press.