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Living Translation (Paperback)
Gayatri Chakrav Spivak, Emily Apter, Avishek Ganguly, Mauro Pala, Surya Parekh
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A collection that brings together Spivak's wide-ranging writings on
translation for the first time. Living Translation offers a
powerful perspective on the work of distinguished thinker and
writer Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, revealing how, throughout her
long career, she has made translation a central concern of the
comparative humanities. Starting with her landmark "Translator's
Preface" to Jacques Derrida's Of Grammatology in 1976, and
continuing with her foreword to Mahasweta Devi's Draupadi and
afterword to Devi's Chotti MundaandHis Arrow, Spivak has tackled
questions of translatability. She has been interested in
interrogating the act of translation from the ground up and at the
political limit. She sees at play at border checkpoints, at sites
of colonial pedagogy, in acts of resistance to monolingual regimes
of national language, at the borders of minor literature and
schizo-analysis, in the deficits of cultural debt and linguistic
expropriation, and, more generally, at theory's edge, which is to
say, where practical criticism yields to theorizing in
untranslatables. This volume also addresses how Spivak's
institution-building as director of comparative literature at the
University of Iowa-and in her subsequent places of employment-began
at the same time. From this perspective, Spivak takes her place
within a distinguished line-up of translator-theorists who have
been particularly attuned to the processes of cognizing in
languages, all of them alive to the coproductivity of thinking,
translating, writing.
On a second wave of anti-colonial revolutions. State and Capital
reign over the Age of Sorrow. We face inequality, pandemics,
ethnocide, climate crisis, and mass extinction. Our desire for
security and power governs us as State. Our desire for possessions
governs us as Capital. Our desires imprison and rule us beings as
Unbeing. Yet, from Nagaland to New Zealand, Bhutan to Bolivia, a
second wave of anti-colonial revolutions has begun. Arising from
assemblies of humans and other-than-humans, these revolutions
replace possessive individualism with non-exploitative
interdependence. Naga elders, Bhutanese herders and other
indigenous communities, feminists, poets, seers, yaks, cranes,
vultures, and fungi haunt this pamphlet. The original Subaltern
Studies narrated how Indian peasant communities destroyed the
British empire. Subaltern Studies 2.0 prophesies the multi-being
demos and liberates Being from Unbeing. Re-kin, Re-nomad,
Re-animate, Re-wild! The Animist Revolution has come. Â
Mahasweta Devi is one of India's foremost literary figures. Mother
of 1084 is one of her most widely read works, written during the
height of the Naxalite agitation - a militant communist uprising
that was brutally repressed by the Indian government and led to the
widespread murder of young rebels across Bengal. This novel focuses
on the trauma of a mother who awakens one morning to the shattering
news that her son is lying dead in the morgue and her struggle to
understand his decision to be a Naxalite. Breast Stories is a
collection of short fiction about the breast as more than a symbol
of beauty, eroticism, or motherhood, but as a harsh indictment of
an exploitative social system and a weapon of resistance. At a time
when violence towards women in India has escalated exponentially,
Devi exposes the inherently vicious systems in Indian society. Old
Women tells the touching, poignant tales of two timeworn women -
Dulali, a widow since childhood, who is now an old woman
preoccupied only with day-to-day survival, and Andi, who loses her
eyesight due to a combination of poverty, societal indifference,
and government apathy. All three volumes, written in Devi's
hard-hitting yet sensitive prose, are significant milestones in
India's feminist literary landscape.
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Old Women (Paperback)
Mahasweta Devi, Gayatri Chakrav Spivak
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Mahasweta Devi is one of India's foremost literary figures. Mother
of 1084 is one of her most widely read works, written during the
height of the Naxalite agitation - a militant communist uprising
that was brutally repressed by the Indian government and led to the
widespread murder of young rebels across Bengal. This novel focuses
on the trauma of a mother who awakens one morning to the shattering
news that her son is lying dead in the morgue and her struggle to
understand his decision to be a Naxalite. Breast Stories is a
collection of short fiction about the breast as more than a symbol
of beauty, eroticism, or motherhood, but as a harsh indictment of
an exploitative social system and a weapon of resistance. At a time
when violence towards women in India has escalated exponentially,
Devi exposes the inherently vicious systems in Indian society. Old
Women tells the touching, poignant tales of two timeworn women -
Dulali, a widow since childhood, who is now an old woman
preoccupied only with day-to-day survival, and Andi, who loses her
eyesight due to a combination of poverty, societal indifference,
and government apathy. All three volumes, written in Devi's
hard-hitting yet sensitive prose, are significant milestones in
India's feminist literary landscape.
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