Here I Am and Other Stories: Short Stories - Couverture souple

Sathyavathi, P

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 935290754X ISBN 13 : 9789352907540

Editeur : Ratna Books, 2020

Synopsis

Sathyavathi's stories explore the lives of a vast swathe of women - middle-class women yearning for economic independence, space and identity; women affected by migration, whether from rural areas to cities or from a metropolis to some dream world in the USA; young women fleeing from rural agricultural crises to become housemaids, wage labourers and construction workers in towns and, at the same time, tempted by the glitz of cell phones, beauty aids, scooter rides, expensive clothes and food in upmarket restaurants. Often, women from these several categories populate one story and the reader gets a glimpse of the commonality of women's condition across race, class and caste. Mirroring the effects of globalization and cataclysmic changes in moral values and social behaviour - leading to devaluation of women - Sathyavathi brings the reader face to face with daily lived experiences in a narrative that is neither rhetorical nor verbose.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

P. SATHYAVATHI became well known with her prize-winning story 'Glasu Pagilindi' in 1977. Illalakagaane (Quest for Identity), a volume of stories, won her the Chaso award and established her as a leading feminist writer in Telugu. Later, she received the Rangavalli award and Telugu University award, among many other prestigious awards. With four novels, five anthologies of short stories and a volume of essays to her credit, she ran a regular column on the early women writers in Bhumika. She has translated into Telugu, to much acclaim, Karen Armstrong's Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet, Ismat Chugtai's stories, A. Revathi's The Truth about Me: A Hijra Life Story and Y.B. Satyanarayana's My Father Baliah; and is now translating Paula Richman's Many Ramayanas into Telugu. She is presently co-editing an anthology of contemporary Telugu women writers' stories translated into English and to be published by the Sahitya Akademi.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Ratna Books
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 935290754X
• ISBN 13: 9789352907540
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 208
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Buchpark GmbH; https://www.buchpark.de; ; Krügerweg 1; Trebbin; Brandenburg; 14959; Allemagne