Mahasweta Devi: Writer, Activist, Visionary (Writer in Context)

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
	17 Writing for the Stage: The Plays of Mahasweta Devi
	18 Sahitya as Kinesis: Performative Potential in Stage and Screen Adaptations of Mahasweta Devi’s Works
Section 3 Ablaze With Rage: The Writer as Activist
	19 Tribal Language and Literature: The Need for Recognition
	20 Eucalyptus: Why?
	21 ‘Palamau Is a Mirror of India’
	22 The Adivasi Mahasweta
	23 Haunted Landscapes: Mahasweta Devi and the Anthropocene
Section 4 Personal Glimpses: A Life in Words
	24 Our Santiniketan
	25 Talking Writing: Conversations With Mahasweta Devi
	26 ‘To Find Me, Read My Work’: Dialogues With Mahasweta Devi
	27 Family Reminiscences
		I I Am Truly Amazed
		II Baba, Ma, Our Home
		III The Didi I Have Known
		IV My Mother
		V Mahasweta Devi: The ‘Mashi’ Who Wrote Fearlessly About Caste, Class, and Patriarchy
	28 Shobor Mother Mahasweta Devi
	29 Small Big Things
	30 Mahasweta Devi: A Legend Who Lived on Her Own Terms
	31 ‘Every Dream Has the Right to Live’
Mahasweta Devi: A Bio-Chronology
Mahasweta Devi: Selected Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index