Seeing in the Dark - R. Chudamani, Prabhar Sridevan

Seeing in the Dark

Short Stories by R. Chudamani
Buch | Softcover
280 Seiten
2015
OUP India (Verlag)
978-0-19-945967-4 (ISBN)
33,65 inkl. MwSt
In this collection of short stories, R. Chudamani reveals the battles fought by women in their daily lives and notes their different reactions and perspectives on life. The issues Chudamani raises are as prevalent in the present time as they were at the time she wrote these stories.
'Her smile a saga of womanhood.'

Abhirami ... a courageous village girl seeks vengeance for being raped.

Devaki ... weakened and afraid, a mother of six cringes at her seventh pregnancy.

Sankari ... a free-spirited woman who finds liberation in death.

The underlying theme in each of the stories is the woman as she sees herself, not how others believe her to be. Painted with earthy colours and lyrical language, R. Chudamani's women speak gently yet firmly of the battles fought daily within the home and outside it. They face the currents of life, fighting, resisting, and, at times, succumbing.

R. Chudamani (1931-2010), though not formally educated, was a prolific writer in Tamil and English. She has to her credit over 500 short stories and 32 volumes of fiction. She began publishing in Tamil in 1954 and in English in 1962. She wrote on a variety of topics with a deep understanding of human nature. Prabha Sridevan is a former judge of the Madras High Court and the former chairman regularly in English and Tamil on issues of law and life. Seeing in of the Intellectual Property Appellate Board. She writes the Dark is her first translation.

Translatoras Note ; Introduction: Unfolding Wings of Thought in the Inner Air (by Prema Nandakumar) ; Kinship Terms ; A Trace of Envy ; We Donat Know ; That Fragile World ; Bhuvana and the Star Sign ; The Nagalinga Tree ; Who Could Have Told Them? ; Seeing in the Dark ; Ascent to the Shrine ; After Three Years ; Growing Up, Growing Apart ; A State of Mind ; He Is Not in Town ; The Downpour Outside ; Nothing Ever Happens ; Doctorammaas Room ; TV Aunty ; Heat and Rain ; A Rainbow in Her Hands ; Does Anyone Care? ; Woman in the Dark ; The Visitor ; Doors Closed Forever ; Neelayathakshi at Sixty ; The Couple ; The Fourth Stage of Life ; Loss of a Crest Jewel by Ambai ; About the Author and the Translator

Verlagsort New Delhi
Sprache englisch
Maße 144 x 215 mm
Gewicht 274 g
Themenwelt Literatur Anthologien
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10 0-19-945967-3 / 0199459673
ISBN-13 978-0-19-945967-4 / 9780199459674
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