| Old Women Contributor(s): Devi, Mahasweta (Author), Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty (Translator) |
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ISBN: 8170461448 ISBN-13: 9788170461449 Publisher: Seagull Books OUR PRICE: $13.50 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: 891.443 |
| LCCN: 99940165 |
| Physical Information: 0.24" H x 6.46" W x 8.53" (0.38 lbs) 112 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Devi, Mahasweta: - Mahasweta Devi(1926 2016) was a writer and social activist. She was the author of numerous plays, essays, novels, and short stories.Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty: - Gayatri Chakravorty Spivakis university professor in the humanities at Columbia University and the author of many books, including "The Post-Colonial Critic", "Nationalism and the Imagination" and, with Judith Butler, "Who Sings the Nation-State?", the last two also published by Seagull Books. |