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Strongmen: Trump / Modi / Erdogan / Duterte / Putin

Strongmen: Trump / Modi / Erdogan / Duterte / Putin

Danish Husain
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This small book, edited by Vijay Prashad, with a striking cover graphic by the Indian artist Orijit Sen, is a collection of fables.

Four brilliant artists and writers confront four strongmen.

Eve Ensler, the American playwright , goes beneath the skin – or should we say orange hair – of US President Donald Trump.

Danish Husain, the Indian storyteller and actor, finds himself telling us the story not only of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi but also of the ascension of the extremism of the Sangh Parivar.

Burhan Sönmez, the Turkish novelist, ferrets about amidst the bewildering career of the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

Ninotchka Rosca, the Filipina feminist novelist, unravels the macho world of Rodrigo Duterte.

Their essays do not presume to be neutral. They are partisan thinkers, magical writers, people who see not only the monsters but also a future beyond the ghouls.

A future that is necessary. The present is too painful.

Eve Ensler is the Tony Award winning playwright, activist, and author of the theatrical Obie Award winning phenomenon, The Vagina Monologues, published in 48 languages and performed in over 140 countries. Ensler is founder of V-Day, the 20-year-old global activist movement to end violence against women and girls which has raised over 100 million dollars. V-Day, led her to also found One Billion Rising, the biggest global mass action to end violence against women in over 200 countries. Her new play The Fruit Trilogy will open in 2018 with the Abingdon Theatre Company at the Lucille Lortel Theatre.

Danish Husain is an actor, poet, storyteller as well as a theatre director. He runs his own theatre company called the Hoshruba Repertory. He is known for his revival of Urdu storytelling through the Dastangoi form and later inventing the multilingual storytelling project Qissebaazi. He has appeared in a number of films, including Peepli Live , Ankhon Dekhi , Newton .

Burhan Sönmez is a novelist. He has published Kuzey , Masumlar , Istanbul Istanbul and translated William Blake into Turkish. He won the Disturbing the Peace award from the Vaclav Havel Library Foundation in 2017. He is a board member of PEN International.

Ninotchka Rosca is a novelist and journalist. Her two novels – State of War and Twice Blessed – are considered classics of modern Philippine literature. She interviewed and co-wrote Jose Ma. Sison: At Home in the World, a book about the founding chairman of the re-established Communist Party of the Philippines.

Vijay Prashad is the Executive Director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. He is the author or editor of several books, including The Darker Nations: A Biography of the Short-Lived Third World and The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South . His most recent book is Red Star Over the Third World . He writes regularly for Frontline, The Hindu, Alternet and BirGun. He is Chief Editor at LeftWord Books.
Language
English
Pages
112
Format
Kindle Edition
Publisher
LeftWord Books
Release
March 29, 2018

Strongmen: Trump / Modi / Erdogan / Duterte / Putin

Danish Husain
3.2/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
This small book, edited by Vijay Prashad, with a striking cover graphic by the Indian artist Orijit Sen, is a collection of fables.

Four brilliant artists and writers confront four strongmen.

Eve Ensler, the American playwright , goes beneath the skin – or should we say orange hair – of US President Donald Trump.

Danish Husain, the Indian storyteller and actor, finds himself telling us the story not only of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi but also of the ascension of the extremism of the Sangh Parivar.

Burhan Sönmez, the Turkish novelist, ferrets about amidst the bewildering career of the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

Ninotchka Rosca, the Filipina feminist novelist, unravels the macho world of Rodrigo Duterte.

Their essays do not presume to be neutral. They are partisan thinkers, magical writers, people who see not only the monsters but also a future beyond the ghouls.

A future that is necessary. The present is too painful.

Eve Ensler is the Tony Award winning playwright, activist, and author of the theatrical Obie Award winning phenomenon, The Vagina Monologues, published in 48 languages and performed in over 140 countries. Ensler is founder of V-Day, the 20-year-old global activist movement to end violence against women and girls which has raised over 100 million dollars. V-Day, led her to also found One Billion Rising, the biggest global mass action to end violence against women in over 200 countries. Her new play The Fruit Trilogy will open in 2018 with the Abingdon Theatre Company at the Lucille Lortel Theatre.

Danish Husain is an actor, poet, storyteller as well as a theatre director. He runs his own theatre company called the Hoshruba Repertory. He is known for his revival of Urdu storytelling through the Dastangoi form and later inventing the multilingual storytelling project Qissebaazi. He has appeared in a number of films, including Peepli Live , Ankhon Dekhi , Newton .

Burhan Sönmez is a novelist. He has published Kuzey , Masumlar , Istanbul Istanbul and translated William Blake into Turkish. He won the Disturbing the Peace award from the Vaclav Havel Library Foundation in 2017. He is a board member of PEN International.

Ninotchka Rosca is a novelist and journalist. Her two novels – State of War and Twice Blessed – are considered classics of modern Philippine literature. She interviewed and co-wrote Jose Ma. Sison: At Home in the World, a book about the founding chairman of the re-established Communist Party of the Philippines.

Vijay Prashad is the Executive Director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. He is the author or editor of several books, including The Darker Nations: A Biography of the Short-Lived Third World and The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South . His most recent book is Red Star Over the Third World . He writes regularly for Frontline, The Hindu, Alternet and BirGun. He is Chief Editor at LeftWord Books.
Language
English
Pages
112
Format
Kindle Edition
Publisher
LeftWord Books
Release
March 29, 2018

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