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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. Old Women tells the touching, poignant tales of two timeworn women. In 'Statue', we meet Dulali, a widow since childhood, who is now an old woman preoccupied only with day-to-day survival. When the government decides to erect in her village a statue of Dindayal--a man who had fought in India's struggle for independence from British rule and who also was in love with Dulali long ago--a tragic, forbidden love comes back to haunt her. And in 'The Fairy Tale of Mohanpur', a combination of poverty, societal indifference, and government apathy leads Andi to lose her eyesight, even as she persists in her faith in a fairy-tale solution.
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Mahasweta Devi (1926-2016) was a writer and social activist. She was the author of numerous novels, essays, and short stories.
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is university professor in the humanities at Columbia University and the author of many books, including Nationalism and the Imagination, also published by Seagull Books.
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OLD WOMEN : Statue and the Fairy Tale of Mohanpur
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Old Women
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Paperback. Etat : New. Mahasweta Devi is one of India's foremost literary figures. Mother of 1084 is one of her most widely read works, written during the height of the Naxalite agitation - a militant communist uprising that was brutally repressed by the Indian government and led to the widespread murder of young rebels across Bengal. This novel focuses on the trauma of a mother who awakens one morning to the shattering news that her son is lying dead in the morgue and her struggle to understand his decision to be a Naxalite. Breast Stories is a collection of short fiction about the breast as more than a symbol of beauty, eroticism, or motherhood, but 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 exposes the inherently vicious systems in Indian society. Old Women tells the touching, poignant tales of two timeworn women - Dulali, a widow since childhood, who is now an old woman preoccupied only with day-to-day survival, and Andi, who loses her eyesight due to a combination of poverty, societal indifference, and government apathy.All three volumes, written in Devi's hard-hitting yet sensitive prose, are significant milestones in India's feminist literary landscape. N° de réf. du vendeur LU-9788170461449
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Old Women Statue and The Fairy Tale of Mohanpur
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Soft cover. Etat : Fine. Contents: 1. Statue. 2. The fairy tale of Mohanpur. Glossary. 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 Dulali now an old woman pre occupied only with 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 Chakravorty Spivak says: Here in this text you'll find what Kamala Visweswaran has called woman as subaltern the first story and subaltern women the second. In my way of reading there is here a solid critique of nationalism 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 farce) are also worth contemplating. 106 pp. N° de réf. du vendeur 50835
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