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Our Santiniketan by Mahasweta Devi
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $27.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857429018Author Mahasweta DeviFormat HardbackPage Count 120Imprint Seagull Books London... -
Imaginary Maps by Mahasweta Devi
RRP: $89.68Booksplease Price: $74.08Imaginary 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... -
Old Women Mahasweta Devi 9788170461449
RRP: $22.43Booksplease Price: $20.44Mahasweta 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... -
Truth/Untruth Mahasweta Devi 9781803090771
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $28.74A trenchant, darkly humorous, and unsentimental look at Calcutta society. Set in Calcutta in the mid-1980s, Truth/Untruth is a fast-paced thriller built around the death of the pregnant Jamuna-a maid... -
The Murderer’s Mother by Mahasweta Devi 9781803092324
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $33.58A tense sociopolitical novel exploring power, violence, and morality in 1970s India. The Murderer's Mother takes readers to the late 1970s in the Indian state of West Bengal, where the Communist... -
Mirror of the Darkest Night by Mahasweta Devi
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $30.32It's the mid-to-late 1800s and the British have banished Wajid Ali Shah the nawab of Awadh in Lucknow to Calcutta. To the sound of the soulful melody of the sarangi, the mercurial courtesan Laayl-e... -
Breast Stories Mahasweta Devi 9788170461401
Booksplease Price: $23.56Mahasweta 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... -
Chotti Munda and His Arrow Mahasweta Devi 9781405107051
RRP: $68.15Booksplease Price: $62.44Written 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... -
Chotti Munda and His Arrow by Mahasweta Devi 9781405107044
RRP: $192.56Booksplease Price: $168.73'I had but that one arrow', says Chotti Munda, the hero of this epic tale. A 'magic' arrow that stood for the pride, the wisdom, the culture of their society, a society threatened with inevitable... -
Mahasweta Devi: Writer, Activist, Visionary by Radha Chakravarty 9780367702748
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $74.82Mahasweta Devi occupies a singular position in the history of modern Indian literature and world literature. This book engages with Devi’s works as a writer-activist who critically explored subaltern... -
Hermeneutical Women of Mahasweta Devi and Ambai by John Suganya 9798887721040
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $29.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798887721040Author John SuganyaFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Notion Press, Inc.Publisher... -
Postcolonial Custodianship: Cultural and Literary Inheritance by Filippo Menozzi
RRP: $103.33Booksplease Price: $92.31This book engages with current developments in postcolonial research, exploring notions of cultural transmission, tradition and modernity, authenticity, cross-cultural aesthetics and postcolonial... -
Insurgent Imaginations: World Literature and the Periphery by Auritro Majumder 9781108477574
RRP: $161.85Booksplease Price: $154.17This book argues that contemporary world literature is defined by peripheral internationalism. Over the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, a range of aesthetic forms beyond the metropolitan West -... -
African Literature, Animism and Politics Caroline Rooney 9780415418553
RRP: $115.03Booksplease Price: $103.23This book marks an important contribution to colonial and postcolonial studies in its clarification of the African discourse of consciousness and its far-reaching analyses of a literature of animism... -
The Postsecular Imagination: Postcolonialism, Religion, and Literature Manav Ratti 9781138822375
RRP: $115.03Booksplease Price: $102.26The Postsecular Imagination presents a rich, interdisciplinary study of postsecularism as an affirmational political possibility emerging through the potentials and limits of both secular and... -
Feminism and Contemporary Women Writers: Rethinking Subjectivity by Radha Chakravarty 9780415467315
RRP: $243.75Booksplease Price: $217.13This book attempts to deal with the problem of literary subjectivity in theory and practice. The works of six contemporary women writers - Doris Lessing, Anita Desai, Mahasweta Devi, Buchi Emecheta,... -
Feminism and Contemporary Women Writers: Rethinking Subjectivity by Radha Chakravarty
RRP: $115.03Booksplease Price: $102.26This book attempts to deal with the problem of literary subjectivity in theory and practice. The works of six contemporary women writers - Doris Lessing, Anita Desai, Mahasweta Devi, Buchi Emecheta,... -
Reading Postcolonial Theory: Key texts in context by Bibhash Choudhury 9781138488618
RRP: $99.43Booksplease Price: $88.98This book is an essential introduction to significant texts in postcolonial theory. It looks at seminal works in the 'moments of their making' and delineates the different threads that bind... -
World Literature Decentered: Beyond the “West” through Turkey, Mexico and Bengal by Ian Almond 9781032034553
RRP: $91.63Booksplease Price: $83.19What would world literature look like, if we stopped referring to the "West"? Starting with the provocative premise that the "'West' is ten percent of the planet", World Literature Decentered is the... -
The Post-Colonial Critic: Interviews, Strategies, Dialogues Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 9780415901703
RRP: $89.68Booksplease Price: $81.51Gayatri Spivak, one of our best known cultural and literary theorists, addresses a vast range of political questions with both pen and voice in this unique book. The Post-Colonial Critic brings... -
Postcolonial Urban Outcasts: City Margins in South Asian Literature by Madhurima Chakraborty
RRP: $101.38Booksplease Price: $91.53Extending current scholarship on South Asian Urban and Literary Studies, this volume examines the role of the discontents of the South Asian city. The collection investigates how South Asian... -
The World in a Grain of Sand: Postcolonial Literature and Radical Universalism by Nivedita Majumdar
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $27.77The World in a Grain of Sand offers a framework for reading literature from the global South that goes against the grain of dominant theories in cultural studies, especially, postcolonial theory. It... -
Gender in Translation by Sherry Simon
RRP: $93.58Booksplease Price: $84.84Gender in Translation is a broad-ranging, imaginative and lively look at feminist issues surrounding translation studies. Students and teachers of translation studies, linguistics, gender studies and... -
The Politics of Social Exclusion in India: Democracy at the Crossroads by Harihar Bhattacharyya
RRP: $95.53Booksplease Price: $86.52Social exclusion and inclusion remain issues of fundamental importance to democracy. Both exclusion and inclusion relate to the access to participation in the public realm, public goods and services... -
Outside in the Teaching Machine by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 9781138167902
RRP: $263.25Booksplease Price: $232.58Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is one of the most pre-eminent postcolonial theorists writing today and a scholar of genuinely global reputation. This collection, first published in 1993, presents some of... -
What are you Reading?: The World Market and Indian Literary Production by Pavithra Narayanan 9781138662483
RRP: $103.33Booksplease Price: $92.31This book offers a material critique on various aspects of Indian literary production and its reception by its audiences. Taking a historical and contemporary lineage into account, the author... -
Blood Into Ink: South Asian And Middle Eastern Women Write War by Miriam Cooke-Kerns
Booksplease Price: $74.08"These writings on war by Middle Eastern and South Asian women are passionate, bitter, and deeply attached to place and circumstance. They should be part of our essential reading. At the tail end of... -
Narratives of Gendered Dissent in South Asian Cinemas by Alka Kurian
RRP: $103.33Booksplease Price: $92.31This book conducts a post-colonial, gendered investigation of women-centred South Asian films. In these films, the narrative becomes an act of political engagement and a site of feminist struggle: a... -
In Other Worlds: Essays In Cultural Politics by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
RRP: $46.78Booksplease Price: $35.08In this classic work, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, one of the leading and most influential cultural theorists working today, analyzes the relationship between language, women and culture in both... -
In Other Worlds: Essays In Cultural Politics by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 9781138835030
RRP: $253.50Booksplease Price: $223.65In this classic work, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, one of the leading and most influential cultural theorists working today, analyzes the relationship between language, women and culture in both... -
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak by Stephen Morton
RRP: $243.75Booksplease Price: $217.13Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak offers an overtly political challenge to the way we think about literature and culture. As she highlights the many legacies of colonialism, she re-defines the ethical... -
Sex Trafficking in Postcolonial Literature: Transnational Narratives from Joyce to Bolano by Laura Barberan Reinares 9781138737426
RRP: $97.48Booksplease Price: $87.34At present, the bulk of the existing research on sex trafficking originates in the social sciences. Sex Trafficking in Postcolonial Literature adds an original perspective on this issue by examining... -
Critical Discourse in Bangla by Subha Chakraborty Dasgupta 9781032124704
RRP: $87.73Booksplease Price: $80.42This volume forms a part of the Critical Discourses in South Asia series which deals with schools, movements, and discursive practices in major South Asian languages. It offers crucial insights into... -
Name Me a Word: Indian Writers Reflect on Writing by Meena Alexander 9780300222586
Booksplease Price: $114.60A wide-ranging anthology of twentieth-century and contemporary writing from India and the Indian diaspora, curated by a distinguished scholar and poet Internationally renowned scholar, poet, and... -
Ethnographic Narratives as World Literature: Uneven Entanglements in European and South Asian Writing by Lucio De Capitani 9783031387036
RRP: $233.98Booksplease Price: $197.03This book links world-literary studies with anthropology and ethnography. It shows how ethnographic narratives can represent a compelling point of departure for world-literary explorations. The... -
The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of Gayati Chakravorty Spivak by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 9780415910019
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $74.08Among the foremost feminist critics to have emerged to international eminence over the last fifteen years, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has relentlessly challenged the high ground of established... -
Postcolonial Modernity and the Indian Novel: On Catastrophic Realism by Sourit Bhattacharya 9783030373993
Booksplease Price: $90.25This book argues that modernity in postcolonial India has been synonymous with catastrophe and crisis. Focusing on the literary works of the 1943 Bengal Famine, the 1967-72 Naxalbari Movement, and... -
Performance and Knowledge by G. N. Devy
RRP: $79.93Booksplease Price: $73.16Part of the series Key Concepts in Indigenous Studies, this book focuses on the concepts that recur in any discussion of nature, culture and society among the indigenous. This final volume in the... -
Creaturely Forms in Contemporary Literature: Narrating the War Against Animals by Dominic O'Key 9781350189676
Booksplease Price: $62.13We are living through a period of planetary crisis, a time in which the mass production and consumption of some animals is made possible by the mass extinction of many others. What is the role of... -
Creaturely Forms in Contemporary Literature: Narrating the War Against Animals by Dominic O'Key 9781350189621
Booksplease Price: $187.88Through close readings of works by W. G. Sebald, J. M. Coetzee and Mahasweta Devi, this book explores how contemporary authors are rethinking the relations between humans and other animals in an age...