Mother of 1084
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Mahasweta Devi is one of India’s foremost literary figures. 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 ndictment 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.
Author: | Mahasweta Devi |
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ISBN: | 9788170461395 |
Publisher: | Seagull Books |
Binding: | Paperback |
Pages: | 144 |
Year of Publication: | 2014 |
Edition: | First |
Condition: | New |
Country of Origin: | India |
About the Author
Mahasweta Devi is the author of numerous plays, essays, novels, and short stories, including Bait and Queen of Jhansi, also published by Seagull Books. Samik Bandyopadhyay is a critic, scholar, and translator. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is university professor at Columbia University and the author of many books, including Nationalism and the Imagination and Harlem, also published by Seagull Books.
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