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Mahasweta Devi

Writer, Activist, Visionary
 
Edition number: 1
Publisher: Routledge India
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Short description:

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.

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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.

Table of Contents:

List of photographs


Preface to the Series


Preface


Acknowledgements



Introduction


The Searing Vision of Mahasweta Devi


RADHA CHAKRAVARTY



PART I


Spectrum: The Writer?s Oeuvre





  1. Fictionalised Biography ? The Queen of Jhansi (extract)


    2. TRANSLATED BY SAGAREE AND MANDIRA SENGUPTA




  2. Novel ? Mother of 1084 (extract)


    3. TRANSLATED BY SAMIK BANDYOPADHYAY




  3. Short fiction ? Giribala (extract)


    4. TRANSLATED BY RADHA CHAKRAVARTY




  4. Drama ? Bayen (extract)


    5. TRANSLATED BY SAMIK BANDYOPADHYAY




  5. Children?s Writing ? Nyadosh the Incredible Cow (extract)


    6. TRANSLATED BY PARAMITA BANERJEE




  6. Literary Criticism ? Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay (extract)



    7. PART II


    Kaleidoscope: Critical Reception




  7. Novelist Mahasweta Devi: The Critical Tradition


    8. ARUP KUMAR DAS


    TRANSLATED BY NANDINI GUHA




  8. Mahasweta Devi: In Search of a Rare Uniqueness


    9. DIPENDU CHAKRABARTI


    TRANSLATED BY NANDINI GUHA




  9. Hajar Churashir Ma, Mahasweta and the Next Phase of the Bangla Novel


    10. DILIP KUMAR BASU


    TRANSLATED BY NANDINI GUHA




  10. Mahasweta Devi: Forests and Nature


    11. PARTHA PRATIM BANDYOPADHYAY


    TRANSLATED BY RADHA CHAKRAVARTY




  11. Mahasweta Devi?s Writings: An Evaluation


    12. SUJIT MUKHERJEE




  12. Reading "Pterodactyl"


    13. GAYATRI CHAKRAVORTY SPIVAK




  13. Douloti as a National Allegory


    14. JAIDEV




  14. Re-ordering the Maternal: Histories of Violence in Mahasweta Devi, Toni Morrison and Amrita Pritam


    15. SHREEREKHA SUBRAMANIAN




  15. The Politics of Positionality: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Samik Bandyopadhyay as Translators of Mahasweta Devi


    16. SHREYA CHAKRAVORTY




  16. Reconsidering ?Fictionalised Biographies?: Mahasweta Devi's Queen of Jhansi and Mamoni Raisom Goswami's The Bronze Sword of Thengphakhri Tehsildar


    17. ARUNABH KONWAR




  17. Writing for the Stage: The Plays of Mahasweta Devi


    18. ANJUM KATYAL




  18. Sahitya as Kinesis: Performative Potential in Stage and Screen Adaptations of Mahasweta Devi?s Works


    19. BENIL BISWAS



    PART III


    Ablaze With Rage: The Writer As Activist




  19. Tribal Language and Literature


    20. MAHASWETA DEVI


    TRANSLATED BY MAITREYA GHATAK




  20. Eucalyptus: Why?


    21. MAHASWETA DEVI




  21. Palamau is a Mirror of India


    22. MAHASWETA DEVI


    TRANSLATED BY IPSITA CHANDA




  22. The Adivasi Mahasweta


    23. G.N. DEVY




  23. Haunted Landscapes: Mahasweta Devi and the Anthropocene


    24. MARY LOUISA CAPPELLI



    PART IV


    Personal Glimpses: A Life in Words




  24. Our Santiniketan


    25. MAHASWETA DEVI


    TRANSLATED BY RADHA CHAKRAVARTY




  25. "Talking Writing: Conversations with Mahasweta Devi"


    26. NAVEEN KISHORE




  26. ?To find me, read my work?: Dialogues with Mahasweta Devi


    27. RADHA CHAKRAVARTY




  27. Family Reminiscences




  1. I Am Truly Amazed




  2. Baba, Ma, Our Home


    3. SOMA MUKHOPADHYAY


    TRANSLATED BY NANDINI GUHA




  3. The Didi I have Known


    4. SARI LAHIRI


    TRANSLATED BY NANDINI GUHA




  4. My Mother


    5. NABARUN BHATTACHARYA


    TRANSLATED BY NANDINI GUHA




  5. Mahasweta Devi: The 'Mashi' Who Wrote Fearlessly About Caste, Class and Patriarchy


INA PURI





  1. Shobor Mother Mahasweta Devi


    2. RANJIT KUMAR DAS


    TRANSLATED BY NANDINI GUHA




  2. Small Big Things


    3. ANAND (P. SACHIDANANDAN)




  3. A Legend Who Lived on Her Own Terms


    4. ANITA AGNIHOTRI


    TRANSLATED BY NANDINI GUHA




  4. "Every Dream Has the Right to Live"


Dakxin Bajrange



Bio-chronology


Bibliography


List of Contributors


Index