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Record Nr.

UNISA996213949603316

Autore

Mahāśvetā Debī <1926-2016, >

Titolo

Chotti Munda and his arrow / / Mahasweta Devi ; translated by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA : , : Seagull Books Private Ltd, , [2003]

©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.)

Disciplina

891.4/4371

Soggetti

Bengali fiction

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 (pages [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