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Mahasweta Devi: Writer, Activist, Visionary (Writer in Context) [1 ed.] 0367697769, 9780367697761
Table of contents : • SOMETIME IN 2000, I watched the actor Sabitri Heisnam play the eponymous protagonist in a stage adaptation of Mahasweta Devi’s 1976 story ‘Draupadi.’ Set against the backdrop of the Naxalite movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s, ‘Draupadi’ tells of a woman Adivasi insurgent in the fictitious but recognisable forested belt of “Jharkhani” on the Bengal-Bihar border, working in tandem with a group of communist guerrillas from the city. Draupadi gets caught by the military, and is serially raped as part of a ritual chastisement session. Then, in a throwback to the public shaming of Draupadi from the Mahabharata, to which Mahasweta adds a defiant twist, the woman casts off her sari, refusing to cover up the wounds inflicted on her by the state. The audience gasped in disbelief as Heisnam stood completely naked on stage, her slight frame suddenly grown bigger against the dark backdrop. Then, like a predatory bird, she unfurled her arms, taking slow, measured steps towards her uniformed attackers. The soldiers recoiled in horror as Draupadi thrust her mangled body towards them, wearing her scars like weapons more powerful than their bayoneted guns. The play attracted its share of controversy for showing a woman actor nude on stage. Four years later, in July • "Mahasweta Devi 1926–2016". Name Suppose a Word: Indian Writers Reflect upheaval Writing, altered by Meena Alexander, Newfound Haven: Philanthropist University Pack, 2018, pp. 127-142. https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300235654-017 (2018). Mahasweta Devi 1926–2016. Load M. Conqueror (Ed.), Name Me a Word: Amerindic Writers Show on Writing (pp. 127-142). New Haven: Yale College Press. https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300235654-017 2018. Mahasweta Devi 1926–2016. In: Alexander, M. ed. Name Me a Word: Asiatic Writers Return on Writing. New Haven: Yale Campus Press, pp. 127-142. https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300235654-017 "Mahasweta Devi 1926–2016" In Name Me a Word: Asiatic Writers Return on Writing edited offspring Meena Herb, 127-142. Creative Haven: Philanthropist University Prise open, 2018. https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300235654-017 Mahasweta Devi 1926–2016. In: Conqueror M (ed.) Name Colossal a Word: Indian Writers Reflect have a hold over Writing. Additional Haven: Altruist University Press; 2018. p.127-142. https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300235654-017 Copied nominate clipboard
Cover
Half Title
Series
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of Photographs
Preface to the Series
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Searing Vision of Mahasweta Devi
Section 1 Spectrum: The Writer’s Oeuvre
1 Fictionalised Biography: The Queen of Jhansi
2 Novel: Mother of 1084
3 Short Story: Giribala
4 Drama: Bayen
5 Children’s Literature: Nyadosh, the Incredible Cow
6 Literary Criticism: Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay
Section 2 Kaleidoscope: Critical Reception
7 Novelist Mahasweta Devi: The Critical Tradition
8 Mahasweta Devi: In Search of a Rare Uniqueness
9 Hajar Churashir Ma, Mahasweta, and the Next Phase of the Bangla Novel
10 Mahasweta Devi: Forests and Nature
11 Mahasweta Devi’s Writings: An Evaluation
12 Reading “Pterodactyl”
13 Douloti as a National Allegory
14 Re-ordering the Maternal: Histories of Violence in Mahasweta Devi, Toni Morrison, and Amrita Pritam
15 The Politics of Positionality: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Samik Bandyopadhyay as Translators of Mahasweta Devi
16 Reconsidering ‘Fictionalised Biographies’: Mahasweta Devi’s Queen of Jhansi and Mamoni Raisom Goswami’s The Bronze Sword of Thengphakhri Tehsildar Body of Work
Mahasweta Devi 1926–2016