Breast stories / Mahasweta Devi ; translated with introductory essays by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: Bengali Publisher: Calcutta : Seagull Books, 2014Description: 166 pages ; 22 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9788170461401 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Mahāśvetā Debī, 1926- -- Translations into EnglishGenre/Form: Short stories.DDC classification: 891.4'4371 Summary: Mahasweta Devi is one of India's foremost literary figures, a prolific and best-selling author in Bengali of short fiction and novels, and a deeply political social activist who has been working in marginalized communities for decades. 'Breast Stories' is a collection of short fiction that focuses on the breast as more than a symbol of beauty, eroticism, or motherhood. Instead, it is seen as a harsh indictment of an exploitative social system and a weapon of resistance.
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Mahasweta Devi is one of India's foremost literary figures, a prolific and best-selling author in Bengali of short fiction and novels, and a deeply political social activist who has been working in marginalized communities for decades. 'Breast Stories' is a collection of short fiction that focuses on the breast as more than a symbol of beauty, eroticism, or motherhood. Instead, it is seen as a harsh indictment of an exploitative social system and a weapon of resistance.
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