Author: Radha Chakravarty
Eminent Contributors/
Translator(s)/ Edito: Radha Chakravarty
Publisher: Kali/Zubaan
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 186
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8189884026
Description
The body as social and cultural text provides a rich site for creative experimentation in this collection of short stories by contemporary women writers of South Asia. In a world that tends to equate the body with biology, and femininity with the reproductive function, these writers from Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka interrogate these assumptions and reinscribe the body as a source of resistance and self-empowerment. Identity, history, myth, scientific experiment, social hierarchies, sexuality, nationalism, violence, ethics and ecology are interwoven issues for which the body in these stories becomes a powerful signifier. Together, these bodymaps chart a subversive female geography that startles with its boldly inclusive vision.
Contributors: Indira Goswami, Amrita Pritam, Bhuwan Dhungana, Ismat Chughtai, Mahasweta Devi, Ambai, Yashodhara Mishra, Kunzang Choden, Kathleen Jayawardene, Manjula Padmanabhan, Selina Hossain, Asha Kardaley, Easterine Iralu, Zaheda Hina and Kamala Das. The translators include Hina Nandrajog, Manjushree Thapa, Anjana Srivastava, Lakshmi Holmstrom, Mahasweta Baxipatra, Vijita Fernando, Keerti Ramachandra, Muhammad Umar Memon, V.C. Harris and C.K. Mohamed Ummer.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. The Offspring
Indira goswami
2. Dim Light
Amrita Pritam
3. The Bell
Bhuwan Dhungana
4. The Glower Vase
Ismat Chughtai
5. Sindhubala
Mahasweta Devi
6. Once Again
Ambai
7. A Matter of Choice
Yashodhara Misra
8. The Photographs
Kunzang Choden
9. Fire
Kathleen Jayawardene
10. Unfaithful Servants
Manjula Padmanabhan
11. Double war
Selina Hossain
12. Abyss
Asha Kardaley
13. The Man Who become a Bear
Easterine Iralu
14. Achilles’ Heel
Zaheda Hina
15. The Sandal Trees
Kamala Das
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