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Title:Imaginary Maps
Author:Mahasweta Devi
Book Format:Paperback
Book Edition:Special Edition
Pages:Pages: 213 pages
Published:November 16th 1994 by Routledge (first published 1994)
Categories:Fiction. Short Stories. Cultural. India. Literature
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Imaginary Maps presents three stories from noted Bengali writer Mahasweta Devi in conjunction with readings of these tales by famed cultural and literary critic, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Weaving history, myth and current political realities, these stories explore troubling motifs in contemporary Indian life through the figures and narratives of indigenous tribes in India. At once delicate and violent, Devi's stories map the experiences of the "tribals" and tribal life under decolonization. In "The Hunt," "Douloti the Bountiful" and the deftly wrought allegory of tribal agony "Pterodactyl, Pirtha, and Puran Sahay," Ms. Devi links the specific fate of tribals in India to that of marginalized peoples everywhere.

Gayatri Spivak's readings of these stories connect the necessary "power lines" within them, not only between local and international structures of power (patriarchy, nationalisms, late capitalism), but also to the university.

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Original Title: Imaginary Maps
ISBN: 0415904633 (ISBN13: 9780415904636)
Edition Language: English


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haunting...read it before reading the 'Breast Stories' trilogy. reading M Devi almost became a sort of ritual for me at one time. i love the apparently flat-toned and non-poetic invocation of the landscape of Central India, complemented by the starkness of the storytelling.

There are landowners and moneylenders in every village. They are not all so ruthless. Bonded labor is sown into the soil of this district. Every house has a bonded laborer. Not all masters are so ruthless. No one has seen what a good master is like. But they have heard that there are good masters.(from Douloti the Bountiful)*But the old stories are also getting lost, they are losing their way, like mote in the face of a dust storm, ancient tales, history, songs, sagas, folklore, folkways. How

A must-read for anyone concerned with oppression, and that should be everyone.

The author of this book (rather the third author, after the actual stories themselves--timeless--and the Indian writer) is known for being an unapproachable intellectual. In fact, or maybe better yet, she's known for using words that noone understands. That said, I love this exercise in story-telling. It's really tremendous to read something that is so well thought out.

Great window into Indian tribal life. The stories are as insightful as Gayatri Spivak's (many!) supplementary texts enclosed within.

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