[csaa-forum] seminar on Mahasweta Devi

[Devleena Ghosh]

> Reconstructing Identity : Reclaiming the Spirit
>
> Women’s Experience and Resistance in the work of Mahasweta Devi
>
>  by  Ananda Amritmahal

> Date 17th May
> Day Tuesday
> Time 6:30 pm
VENUE ROOM 3/5.02, BON MARCHE BUILDING, ENTER BY 755 HARRIS ST, UTS, 
SYDNEY
>
> Abstract:
>
> Mahasweta Devi’s characters are women with a clearly delineated 
> position in a world dominated by caste and class.  Consciously or 
> unconsciously, their struggles bring them squarely face to face with 
> the socio-economic and politico-cultural reality they inhabit. 
>
> Theirs is a reality that is frequently ignored in any analysis of 
> India, any representation of the cultural kaleidoscope of the 
> ‘nation’.  A reality that is bound by factors that seem unreal in the 
> context of a progressive, independent India: caste oppression, tribal 
> communities and values, bonded labour, economic exploitation and a 
> degradation of life that we can only dimly begin to comprehend.
>
> Five of Mahasweta Devi’s short stories are analysed in this paper:  
> ‘Breast-giver’), ‘Douloti the Beautiful’ (1993:19-94), ‘The Hunt’ 
> (1993:1-18), ‘Funeral-Wailers’ (1999:54-91) and ‘Draupadi 
> (1997:19-38).   In the analysis, two elements  will be considered: the 
> representation of the experience, against a contextualised 
> understanding of the identity of the protagonists in each, and the 
> forms of resistance that are posited in each story.
>

>  Ananda Amritmahal is a lecturer in English Literature at Sophia 
> College, Mumbai, India, and Co-ordinator of the Sophia Centre for 
> Women’s Studies and Development.  Her areas of specialisation are 
> Women’s Writing and Feminist Literary Criticism, and Indian Writing in 
> English, and she has just submitted her Ph.D. thesis on “A feminist 
> perspective on Indian Women’s Writing, with special reference to 
> Shashi Deshpande and Mahasweta Devi”. 

(Dr) Devleena Ghosh
Senior Lecturer
Writing Journalism and Social Inquiry
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
University of Technology, Sydney
Australia

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