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Record Nr.

UNINA9910145421003321

Autore

Mahāśvetā Debī <1926->

Titolo

Chotti Munda and his arrow [[electronic resource] /] / Mahasweta Devi ; translated and introduced by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2003

ISBN

0-470-79560-3

1-281-31941-4

9786611319410

0-470-77474-6

0-470-77771-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (326 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SpivakGayatri Chakravorty

Disciplina

891.44371

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published : Calcutta : Seagull Books, 2002.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references ([298]-299).

Nota di contenuto

Contents; TRANSLATOR'S FOREWORD; 'TELLING HISTORY' AN INTERVIEW WITH MAHASWETA DEVI; CHOTTI MUNDA AND HIS ARROW; TRANSLATOR'S AFTERWORD; NOTES; THE SELECTED WORKS OF MAHASWETA DEVI

Sommario/riassunto

Written in 1980, this novel by prize-winning Indian writer Mahasweta Devi, translated and introduced by Gayatri Chakravorty Sprivak, is remarkable for the way in which it touches on vital issues that have in subsequent decades grown into matters of urgent social conern. Written by one of India's foremost novelists, and translated by an eminent cultural and critical theorist. Ranges over decades in the life of Chotti - the central character - in which India moves from colonial rule to independence, and then to the unrest of the 1970s. Traces the changes, some for