Author: G S Jayasree
Translator(s)/ Edito: G S Jayasree/ Sreedevi K Nair
Publisher: Kali/Women Unlimited
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 119
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8188965286
Description
This selection contains some of the most fascinating contemporary Malayalam stories by women. A struggling single mother listens to her little girl's urgent and original projects to bring them riches. The arctic landscapes of her childhood reading shift strangely when a woman decides to visit them for herself. Another story describes an ordinary afternoon where nothing really happens--except that dreamscapes resurface with an undertow of remembered pain.
Stories posses a fine-grained sense of place-claustrophobic tharavads, forest sounds, the songs of fishermen. Sexual violence is explored in all its complexity--male fears, a girl's pleasure in her body, recurring encounters with casual abuse, with fiction that does violence to female experience.
ABOUT THE EDITOR
SREEDEVI K NAIR teaches English at the N SS College for Women, Thiruvananthapuram, Her book Malayalathinte Kathaakaarikal caries interviews of Ten Malayalm women writers, and she has received the Kerala Lalithakala Akademi Award for translation
Contents
INTRODUCTION: EMBODYING THE NEW WOMAN
1. The Nectar of the Panguru Flower
P Vatsala.
2. The Bird in the Snow
Manasi
3. Suspended Soil
O V Usha
4. Now There is Quiet Here
Gracy
5. The Reindeer
B Chandrika
6. When This Body Encircles Me
Sara Joseph
7. Of Caste
K R Mallika
8. The Vein of Memory
K R Meera
9. Onion Curry and the Nine Times Table
Priya A S
10. The Self Dismembered
Githa Hiranyan
11. The Lesbian Cow
Indu Menon
12. The Fire
Sithara S
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