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Imaginary Maps
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Author : Mahasweta Devi
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-08-28
Imaginary Maps written by Mahasweta Devi and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-28 with Literary Criticism categories.
Imaginary Maps presents three stories from noted Bengali writer Mahasweta Devi in conjunction with readings of these tales by famed cultural and literary critic, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Weaving history, myth and current political realities, these stories explore troubling motifs in contemporary Indian life through the figures and narratives of indigenous tribes in India. At once delicate and violent, Devi's stories map the experiences of the "tribals" and tribal life under decolonization. In "The Hunt," "Douloti the Bountiful" and the deftly wrought allegory of tribal agony "Pterodactyl, Pirtha, and Puran Sahay," Ms. Devi links the specific fate of tribals in India to that of marginalized peoples everywhere. Gayatri Spivak's readings of these stories connect the necessary "power lines" within them, not only between local and international structures of power (patriarchy, nationalisms, late capitalism), but also to the university.
Mahasweta Devi
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Author : Nandini Sen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Mahasweta Devi written by Nandini Sen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with categories.
Mahāśvetā Debī, b. 1926, Bengali author; contributed articles; some previously published.
Mahasweta Devi
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Author : Nivedita Sen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Mahasweta Devi written by Nivedita Sen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with categories.
Collection of previously published articles.
Fiction Of Mahasweta Devi
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Author : B. Vijaya
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Fiction Of Mahasweta Devi written by B. Vijaya and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Caste in literature categories.
Mahasweta Devi A Critical Reading
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Author : Vandana Gupta
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Mahasweta Devi A Critical Reading written by Vandana Gupta and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with categories.
Study of the fictional works of Mahāśvetā Debī, b.1926, Bengali author.
Old Women
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Author : Mahāśvetā Debī
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Old Women written by Mahāśvetā Debī and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Fiction categories.
The two stories in this collection, Statue (Murti) and The Fairy Tale of Mohanpur (Mohanpurer Rupkatha) are touching, poignant tales, in both of which the protagonists are old women. In the first, a tragic, for bidden love returns to haunt Dulah, now an old woman pre-occupied only wih filling her stomach and surviving from day to day. In the second, Andi loses her eyes through a combination of poverty, societal indifference and governmental apathy, even as she persists in her belief in fairy tale solutions. Mahasweta Devi is at her most tender in her sensitive, delicately-drawn portraits of these two old women, although her trenchant pen is as ruthless as ever in delineating the socio-economic oppression within which they are forced to survive. Though extremely readable as moving stories for the fiction lover, they also yield layers of deeper significance upon closer reading. As translator Gayatri ChakravortySpivak says: Here in this text, you ll find what Kamala Visweswaran has called women as subaltern the first story and subaltern women the second. In my way of reading there is here a solid critique of nationlism as an end in itself and a loving critique of how male-gendered nationalism can solve a young man s crisis; and of course, a very strong critique of the failure of decolonization in the second story. The realization that as time passes, for a woman, the ideology of love remains a memory but acknowledges defeat in the hands of hunger is an exquisite aporia in the first story; almost between species-life and species-being. And in the second, the extraordinary resourcefulness of this village community of women and the guileless courage and simplicity of Andi, her relationship with her eldest daughter-in-law and so on, are again a responsible narrative that offers a critique no less powerful than a merely reasonable one. How tellingly Devi outlines the limits of mere goodwill! Indeed, I m always amazed by the theoretical delicacy of Mahasweta s stories. The aporias between gendering on the one hand ( feudal -transitional, and subaltern), and the ideology of national liberation (as tragedy and as face) are also worth contemplating. Mahasweta Devi is one of India s foremost writers. Her powerful, satiric fiction has won her recognition in the form of Sahitya Akademi (1979), Jnanpith (1996) and Ramon Magsaysay (1996) awards, the title of Officier del Ordre Des Arts Et Des Lettres (2003) and the Nonino Prize (2005) amongst several other literary honours. She was also awarded the Padmasree in 1986, for her activist work among dispossessed tribal communities. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, translator, critic and scholar, is Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities Department, Columbia University. She is well known for her translations from French and Bengali into English.
The Book Of The Hunter
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Author : Mahāśvetā Debī
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
The Book Of The Hunter written by Mahāśvetā Debī and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Fiction categories.
This charming, expansive novel set in the sixteenth-century medieval Bengal draws on the life of the great medieval poet Kabikankan Mukundaram Chakrabarti, whose epic poem Abhayamangal, better known as Chandimangal, records the socio-political history of the time. In the section of this epic called Byadhkhanda the Book of the Hunter he describes the lives of hunter tribes, the Shabars, who lived in the forest and its environs. Mahasweta Devi explores the cultural values of the Shabars and how they cope with the slow erosion of their way of life as more and more forest land gets cleared to make way for settlements. She uses the lives of two couples, the brahaman Mukundaram and his wife, and the young Shabars, Phuli and Kalya, to capture the contrasting socio-cultural norms of rural society of the time. Mahasweta Devi acknowledges her debt to Mukundaram, who wrote about men and women, gods and goddesses. The hunter tribes refusal to cultivate and settle down, as described by him, is true of surviving forest tribes today. The villages and rivers mentioned by him still exist. Mahasweta Devi is one of India s foremost writers. Her powerful fiction has won her recognition in the form of the Sahitya Akademi (1979), Jnanpith (1996) and Ramon Magsaysay (1996) awards, the title of Officier del Ordre Des Arts Et Des Lettres (2003) and the Nonino Prize (2005) amongst several other literary honours. She was also awarded the Padmasree in 1986, for her activist work among dispossessed tribal communities. Sagaree Sengupta is translator based in the USA. She translates from Bengali, Hindi and Urdu. She has collaborated on this translation with her mother, Mandira Sengupta, an artist who maintains an active interest in her native Bengali. The two of them earlier translated The Queen of Jhansi in this series.
The Plays Of Mahasweta Devi
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Author : E. Satyanarayana
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
The Plays Of Mahasweta Devi written by E. Satyanarayana and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Drama categories.
The Present Book, While Making A Close Study Of The Thematic Concerns In Mahasweta Devi`S Five Plays, Attempts To Show The Uniqueness Of Her Dramatic Vision And Her Artistic Excellence In The Treatment Of Unusual Themes That Bring Home To Us The Different Modes Of Exploitation Prevalent In Both Urban And Rural World.
Critical Perspectives On Mahasweta Devi S Mother Of 1084
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Author : Kaustav Chakraborty
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Critical Perspectives On Mahasweta Devi S Mother Of 1084 written by Kaustav Chakraborty and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Politics in literature categories.
Critical study on Hājāra curāśira mā, Bengali novel by Mahāśvetā Debī, b. 1926, Bengali author.
Mahasweta Devi
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Author : Radha Chakravarty
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-04-24
Mahasweta Devi written by Radha Chakravarty and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-24 with Literary Collections categories.
Mahasweta Devi occupies a singular position in the history of modern Indian literature and world literature. This book engages with Devi’s works as a writer-activist who critically explored subaltern subjectivities, the limits of history and the harsh social realities of post-independence India. The volume showcases Devi’s oeuvre and versatility through samples of her writing – in translation from the original Bengali—including Jhansir Rani, Hajar Churashir Ma, and Bayen among others. It also looks at the use of language, symbolism, mythic elements and heteroglossia in Devi’s exploration of heterogeneous themes such as exploitation, violence, women’s subjectivities, depredation of the environment and failures of the nation state. The book analyses translations and adaptations of her work, debates surrounding her activism and politics and critical reception to give readers an overview of the writer’s life, influences, achievements and legacy. It highlights the multiple concerns in her writings and argues that the aesthetic aspects of Mahasweta Devi’s work form an essential part of her politics. Part of the ‘Writer in Context’ series, this book will be useful for scholars and researchers of Indian literature, Bengali literature, English literature, postcolonial studies, cultural studies, global south studies and translation studies.