Mahasweta Devi

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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Radha Chakravarty is a writer, critic and translator. She has co-edited The Essential Tagore, nominated Book of the Year 2011 by Martha Nussbaum. She is the author of Feminism and Contemporary Women Writers and Novelist Tagore: Gender and Modernity in Selected Texts. Her Tagore translations include Gora, Chokher Bali, Boyhood Days, Farewell Song: Shesher Kabita, Four Chapters and The Land of Cards: Stories, Poems and Plays for Children. Other works in translation are Bankimchandra Chatterjee's Kapalkundala, Mahasweta Devi's Our Santiniketan and In the Name of the Mother (nominated for the Crossword Translation Award, 2004), Vermillion Clouds: Stories by Bengali Women, *and Crossings: Stories from Bangladesh and India. She has edited Shades of Difference: Selected Writings of Rabindranath Tagore, Bodymaps: Stories by South Asian Women and co-edited Writing Feminism: South Asian Voices and Writing Freedom: South Asian Voices. Her poems have appeared in numerous books and journals. She has contributed to Pandemic: A Worldwide Community Poem, nominated for the Pushcart Prize 2020. Her forthcoming books include The Tagore Phenomenon* and translations of Kazi Nazrul Islam's essays. She was Professor of Comparative Literature & Translation Studies at Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University Delhi, India.

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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) TRANSLATED BY SAGAREE AND MANDIRA SENGUPTA

2. Novel Mother of 1084 (extract) TRANSLATED BY SAMIK BANDYOPADHYAY ****

3. Short fiction Giribala (extract) TRANSLATED BY RADHA CHAKRAVARTY ****

4. Drama Bayen (extract) TRANSLATED BY SAMIK BANDYOPADHYAY ****

5. Children's Writing Nyadosh the Incredible Cow (extract) TRANSLATED BY PARAMITA BANERJEE ****

6. Literary Criticism Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay (extract) **** PART II

   Kaleidoscope: Critical Reception ****

7. Novelist Mahasweta Devi: The Critical Tradition ARUP KUMAR DAS

   TRANSLATED BY NANDINI GUHA **

8. Mahasweta Devi: In Search of a Rare Uniqueness
   DIPENDU CHAKRABARTI

   TRANSLATED BY NANDINI GUHA **

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

   TRANSLATED BY NANDINI GUHA ****

10. Mahasweta Devi: Forests and Nature PARTHA PRATIM BANDYOPADHYAY

    TRANSLATED BY RADHA CHAKRAVARTY ****

11. Mahasweta Devi's Writings: An Evaluation SUJIT MUKHERJEE ****

12. Reading "Pterodactyl" GAYATRI CHAKRAVORTY SPIVAK **

13. Douloti as a National Allegory JAIDEV ****

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

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

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

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

18. Sahitya as Kinesis: Performative Potential in Stage and Screen Adaptations of Mahasweta Devi's Works BENIL BISWAS **** PART III

    Ablaze With Rage: The Writer As Activist ****

19. Tribal Language and Literature
    MAHASWETA DEVI

    TRANSLATED BY MAITREYA GHATAK ****

20. Eucalyptus: Why? MAHASWETA DEVI ****

21. Palamau is a Mirror of India
    MAHASWETA DEVI

    TRANSLATED BY IPSITA CHANDA ****

22. The Adivasi Mahasweta G.N. DEVY ****

23. Haunted Landscapes: Mahasweta Devi and the Anthropocene MARY LOUISA CAPPELLI **** PART IV

    Personal Glimpses: A Life in Words ****

24. Our Santiniketan MAHASWETA DEVI

    TRANSLATED BY RADHA CHAKRAVARTY ****

25. "Talking Writing: Conversations with Mahasweta Devi"
    NAVEEN KISHORE ****

26. 'To find me, read my work': Dialogues with Mahasweta Devi
    RADHA CHAKRAVARTY ****

27. Family Reminiscences

28. I Am Truly Amazed

29. Baba, Ma, Our Home
    SOMA MUKHOPADHYAY

    TRANSLATED BY NANDINI GUHA ****

30. The Didi I have Known SARI LAHIRI

    TRANSLATED BY NANDINI GUHA **

31. My Mother NABARUN BHATTACHARYA

    TRANSLATED BY NANDINI GUHA ****

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

1. Shobor Mother Mahasweta Devi
   RANJIT KUMAR DAS

   TRANSLATED BY NANDINI GUHA ****

2. Small Big Things ANAND (P. SACHIDANANDAN) ****

3. A Legend Who Lived on Her Own Terms ANITA AGNIHOTRI

   TRANSLATED BY NANDINI GUHA **

4. "Every Dream Has the Right to Live" Dakxin Bajrange

Bio-chronology

Bibliography

List of Contributors

Index