My Holy War: Dispatches from the Home Front - Brossura

Raban, Jonathan

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0330445944 ISBN 13: 9780330445948

Casa editrice: Picador, 2006

Riassunto

Struck by memories of his own adolsecent atheism, Jonathan Raban felt he had some understanding of why young people suffering from cultural alienation and moral uncertainty might turn to a backward-looking version of Islam as one way to resist the upheavals of modernity. Yet this understanding was largely - and noticably - absent from any government or political discussions of the issue. In "My Holy War", Raban reflects on the Bush administration's manipulation of the threat of terrorism to undermine civil rights, emphasizing the US failure to understand the history of the Middle East, and explaining the region's shifting and complex loyalties of religion and ethnicity. He traces the continuing support for a disastrous war to the legacy of American Puritanism: the tendency of Americans to be inspired by a religious fervour oblivious to history and reason. As such, "My Holy War" is a book most certainly written in a post 9/11 America, written in light of the war in Iraq, in a new era of religious ferocity, and in the context of modern-day jihad.

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Bush’s ‘war on terror’ as experienced by an Englishman living in the Pacific Northwest.

L'autore

Jonathan Raban is the author of Passage to Juneau, Bad Land , Hunting Mister Heartbreak, Coasting, Old Glory, Arabia, Soft City. Foreign Land (1985) was his first novel; Waxwings his most recent (2003). His work has appeared in the New Yorker , Granta, Harpers, the New York Review of Books, New Republic, and other magazines. In 1990 Raban, a British citizen, moved from London to Seattle, where he now lives with his daughter.

Jonathan Raban is the author of over a dozen books, both fiction and non-fiction, including Passage to Juneau, Bad Land, Hunting Mister Heartbreak, Coasting, Old Glory, Arabia, Soft City, Waxwings and Surveillance. His awards include the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Royal Society of Literature’s Heinemann Award, the Thomas Cook Award, the PEN West Creative Nonfiction Award, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers’ Award, and the Governor’s Award of the State of Washington. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, Harpers, The New York Review of Books, Outside, Atlantic Monthly, New Republic, The London Review of Books, and other magazines.

In 1990 Raban, a British citizen, moved from London to Seattle, where he now lives with his daughter.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Picador
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0330445944
• ISBN 13: 9780330445948
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 208
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile