Download or read book Mother of 1084 written by Mahāśvetā Debī and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is An Insightful Exploration Of The Complex Relationship Between The Personal And The Political.The Novel Written 1973-74. The Novel Written 1973-74, Deals With The Psychological And Emotional Trauma Of A Mother Who Awakens One Morning To The Shattering News That Her Beloved Son Is Lying Dead In The Police Morgue.

Download or read book Breast Stories written by Mahāśvetā Debī and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mahasweta Devi is one of India's foremost literary figures, a prolific and best-selling author in Bengali of short fiction and novels, and a deeply political social activist who has been working in marginalized communities for decades. Breast Stories is a collection of short fiction that focuses on the breast as more than a symbol of beauty, eroticism, or motherhood. Instead, it is seen as a harsh indictment of an exploitative social system and a weapon of resistance. At a time when violence towards women in India has escalated exponentially, Devi's acerbic writing exposes the inherently vicious systems in Indian society.

Download or read book Old Women written by Mahāśvetā Debī and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Critical Essays written by Amar Nath Prasad and published by Sarup & Sons. This book was released on 2003 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Mahasweta Devi written by Radha Chakravarty and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-04-24 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Writers Editors Critics WEC Vol 6 No 2 written by Mahasweta Devi and published by Modern History Press. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writers Editors Critics (WEC) An International Biannual Refereed Journal of English Language and Literature Volume 6 Number 2 (September 2016) ISSN: 2231 ? 198X Special Issue: a tribute to Indian poet Mahasweta Devi (14 January 1926 ? 28 July 2016) A Poetic Tribute to Mahasweta Devi ÿ ÿ- K. V. Dominic Mahasweta Devi: Death cannot Claim a Valiant Soul ÿ- Ketaki Datta Mahasweta Devi: Fourth World Literature for Indigenous ÿPeople?An Obituary - Ratan Bhattacharjee Charting the ?Subaltern? Terrain?The Outsider-Insider: Mahashweta Devi?s ?Pterodactyl? in Perspective - Poonam Sahay Aarti to Maha Shakthi - P. Gopichand & P. Nagasuseela Mahasweta Devi: Voice of the Deprived Millions - Manas Bakshi The Mourners of Mahasweta Devi: A Critical Analysis of Rudali - J. Pamela The Subaltern Woman and Woman as Subaltern: A Study of 34 Selected Works of Mahasweta Devi - Anisha Ghosh (Paul) A Critical Analysis of Mahasweta Devi?s ?Bharsaa? - Ramesh Chandra Mukhopadhyaya The Plight of Tribal People in Mahasweta Devi?s ?Shishu? (Children) Writers Editors Critics (WEC) is a research journal in English literature published from Thodupuzha, Kerala, India. It is the main product of Guild of Indian English Writers, Editors and Critics (GIEWEC), a non-profit registered society of Indian English writers, English language professors as well as PhD research scholars. The publisher is hence GIEWEC itself and editor is its secretary Prof. Dr. K. V. Dominic, a renowned English language poet, critic, short story writer and editor who has to his credit 27 books. ÿIt is truly a refereed journal which has got a screening committee consisting of eminent professors. The articles are sent first to the referees by the editor and only if they accept, the papers will be published. The journal is international in the sense each issue will have contributors from outside India.ÿ The singularity or specialty of this journal is that it has no thrust area. It is hence so accommodative that it publishes papers on all types of literatures including translations from regional languages, literary theories, communicative English, ELT, linguistics etc. In addition, each issue will be rich with poems, short stories, review articles, book reviews, interviews, general essays etc. under separate sections. WEC has print version as well as kindle version. ÿ

Download or read book Representation of the Subaltern by Mahasweta Devi A Postcolonial Context written by Dr. Milind Pandit and published by RUT Printer and Publisher. This book was released on 2015-06-06 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction Social Activism: The Voices of Protest The Subalterns and Black Humour: A Discourse of Class Articulating Indian History Conclusion Bibliography

Download or read book Imaginary Maps written by Mahasweta Devi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-28 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Five Plays written by Mahāśvetā Debī and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the seventies, Mahasweta Devi dramatized one of her major novels, Mother of 1084, and four of her finest stories, convinced that as plays they would be more accessible to the largely illiterate audience she wanted to reach. In the five plays in this anthology, the mother of a Naxalite martyr discovers her son (and in the process her self) a year after his death; a slave enslaved by an ancient bond discovers too late that the bond has turned to dust years ago; a ventriloquist intensely in love with his speaking doll loses his voice to throat cancer; a son, too late, acknowledges his mother who has been outcast and branded a witch by the community; and the traditional water-diviner rises to a different role, immediately becoming a threat to the administration. These plays are rooted in history and folk myth as well as in contemporary reality. The socio-economic milieus range from the urban bourgeoisie to the urban underworld, from rural untouchable settlements to tribal communities offering a view of India rarely seen in literature. 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. Samik Bandyopadhyay, who has translated and introduced these plays, is an eminent critic and scholar who has translated several of Mahasweta Devi s works, and has been closely connected with her career for several decades.

Download or read book Critical Response to Indian Fiction in English written by Amar Nath Prasad and published by Atlantic Publishers & Dist. This book was released on 2001 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical Response To Indian Fiction In English Contains A Series Of Critical Articles, Each Devoted To A Description As Simple And Straightforward As Possible. It Includes Almost All The Prominent Novelists In Indian Writing In English. The Novelists Discussed In This Anthology Are Mulk Raj Anand, R.N. Tagore, Kamala Markandaya, Bhabani Bhattacharya, R.P. Jhabvala, Nayantara Sahgal, Shashi Despande, Anita Desai, Khushwant Singh, Arun Joshi, Vikram Seth, Arundhati Roy And Taslima Nasrin.The Contributors To This Book Are Amar Nath Prasad, Surendra Narayan Jha, Dr. N.D.R. Chandra, Mrs. Pradnya V. Ghodpade, Dr. V. Thanuvalinga, Hari Om Prasad, S.G. Bhanegaonkar, Arjun Kumar, Dr. Chhote Lal Khatri, Arati Biswa, Darshana Trivedi, Dr. Sharada Iyer, Dr. Bhasavraj Naikar, Dr. A.K. Bachchan, Dr. Rama Kundu, M.B. Gaijan And Dr. John E. Abraham.The Volume Dives Deep Into The Works Of Indian Novelists In English And Presents The Critical Study Of Their Respective Works. It Ll Certainly Prove To Be A Great Asset To Teachers And Students And To Those Who Are Doing Research.

Download or read book Mahasweta Devi written by Nivedita Sen and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of previously published articles.

Download or read book Imaginary Maps written by Mahasweta Devi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-28 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book The Plays of Mahasweta Devi written by E. Satyanarayana and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Til Death Do Us Part written by Kate White and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2004-05-04 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: True crime writer and sometime-sleuth Bailey Weggins took the world by storm in Kate White's sexy and suspenseful debut novel, If Looks Could Kill. Now, in Bailey's latest outing, she takes the plunge into a world of domestic divas and deadly nuptial doings... When she gets a call from Ashley Hanes on a frigid night, Bailey expects to be hit up for fashion show tickets. Instead Ashley reveals that two bridesmaids from Peyton Cross's wedding have recently died in freak accidents...and Ashley is terrified she's next. A bridesmaid herself-with the dress to prove it-Bailey dashes off to Ivy Hill Farm, the home of Peyton's catering empire in Greenwich, Connecticut. Bailey's barely warmed up after the cold drive before another bridesmaid takes a walk down the aisle of no return. Now following a dangerous trail of clues that will take her from New York's trendy Lower East Side to a fabulous oceanfront hotel in Miami, Bailey could become the headline of the next true crime story: Four Funerals and a Wedding.

Download or read book Resistance and Identity in Twenty First Century Literature and Culture written by Navleen Multani and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-10-12 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resistance and Identity in Twenty-First Century Literature and Culture: Voices of the Marginalized is a compendium of reflections on literary texts, politics of literature and culture. The book proffers ruminations on the pivotal role of constructive and positive resistance to reconstruct identities for meaningful human existence. The disciplinary power and dominance coerce the natural body to resist and yearn for freedom. One can establish unique identity by refusing to conform to pressures of society that deform the natural body. Dominant forces and oppressive structures evoke resistance that can range from 'polite demurral' to 'refusal'. Resistance comes from the 'will' that refuses to be controlled and governed. The 'refusal' of the ordinary illuminates ordinary lives/ bodies. Language and literary texts contain essential truths of such human existence. Words and imaginary worlds in literary works reveal truth and suggest possibilities for reconfiguring the order.

Download or read book Rudali written by Mahāśvetā Debī and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rudali is a powerful short story written by Mahasweta Devi. Revolving around the life of Sanichari, a poor lowcaste village woman, it is an acidly ironic tale of exploitation and struggle, and above all, of survival. In 1992 it was adapted into a play by Usha Ganguli, a leading theatre director of Calcutta, and instantly became one of the most acclaimed productions of its time. In both incarnations of Rudali, it has been a woman who has wrought and rewrought this text which revolves around the life of a woman; and each version of Rudali can be read as an important feminist text for contemporary India. Both the short story and the play, are included in this volume, along with an introductory essay that studies how and why the versions are different and what the changes signify, leading to an analysis of how the metamorphosis of Rudali allows us to address the simultaneity and asymmetry of feminist positions in this country today. Anjum Katyal, who has translated and introduced the texts in this volume, is a writer and an editor based in Calcutta. 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.

Download or read book Postcolonial Modernity and the Indian Novel written by Sourit Bhattacharya and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-05-27 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that modernity in postcolonial India has been synonymous with catastrophe and crisis. Focusing on the literary works of the 1943 Bengal Famine, the 1967–72 Naxalbari Movement, and the 1975–77 Indian Emergency, it shows that there is a long-term, colonially-engineered agrarian crisis enabling these catastrophic events. Novelists such as Bhabani Bhattacharya, Mahasweta Devi, Salman Rushdie, Rohinton Mistry, Nabarun Bhattacharya, and Nayantara Sahgal, among others, have captured the relationship between the long-term crisis and the catastrophic aspects of the events through different aesthetic modalities within realism, ranging from analytical-affective, critical realist, quest modes to apparently non-realist ones such as metafictional, urban fantastic, magical realist, and others. These realist modalities are together read here as postcolonial catastrophic realism.