[lbo-talk] [Fwd: Re: [Marxism] Arundhati Roy: An Activist Returns To The Novel]

Sujeet Bhatt sujeet.bhatt at gmail.com
Tue Mar 27 06:43:45 PDT 2007


On 3/26/07, Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:


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> Does she have much of a readership in India (with
> respect to either fiction or political stuff)?
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>

Although I don't have any hard figures, I would be willing to bet that her readership in India is marginal at best. To my mind she is just too facile and glib to count as a serious writer - either of fiction or of polemic (her 'Algebra of Infinite Justice' being a particularly vile example of platudinous casuistry in the second category). Her target market is the middle-aged white leftist and his brown cousin - she feeds them exactly the kind of woolly-headed garbage that confirms their pre-conceived idea of "India" and leaves them with that warm fuzzy feeling of having heard it from the "horse's mouth".

Sujeet

-- My humanity is in feeling we are all voices of the same poverty. - Jorge Louis Borges



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