In The Name of the Mother

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In The Name of the Mother

His mother’s gone, there’s no one to cook hot rice when it’s evening . . . No one to say, ‘Son, sit near my lap and eat.’ ‘Ma, from Dusk to Dawn’ is the story of a woman from a nomadic tribe, catapulted by her circumstances into the role of a spiritual mother whose so-called mystical powers depend upon her denial of maternal affection towards her own son during daylight hours. ‘Sindhubala’ describes the anguish of a childless woman forced to play the role of a semi-divine healer called upon to save other people’s offspring. ‘Jamunabati’s Mother’ offers a stringent critique of a consumerist society indifferent to those on the margins and ‘Giribala’ presents the plight of a village woman whose daughters are trafficked by their own father, to pay for the house he dreams of building. The stories in this volume are linked by a common thread: the idea of the mother. They represent a range of responses to the concept of the maternal, exposing how the traditional deification of motherhood in India often conceals a collective exploitation and attempt to restrict women to their socially prescribed roles while denying them the right to articulate their individual needs and desires. At the same time, they also show the strategies evolved by women to survive and circumvent the repression inflicted on them by social norms. The maternal thus emerges as an ambivalent concept, with both restrictive and emancipatory potential. Radha Chakravarty is an academic and translator. She teaches at Gargi College, University of Delhi,and is currently working on English translationsof major Bengali writers. She has contributed essays and review articles to various journals and critical anthologies.
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His mother’s gone, there’s no one to cook hot rice when it’s evening . . . No one to say, ‘Son, sit near my lap and eat.’
‘Ma, from Dusk to Dawn’ is the story of a woman from a nomadic tribe, catapulted by her circumstances into the role of a spiritual mother whose so-called mystical powers depend upon her denial of maternal affection towards her own son during daylight hours. ‘Sindhubala’ describes the anguish of a childless woman forced to play the role of a semi-divine healer called upon to save other people’s offspring. ‘Jamunabati’s Mother’ offers a stringent critique of a consumerist society indifferent to those on the margins and ‘Giribala’ presents the plight of a village woman whose daughters are trafficked by their own father, to pay for the house he dreams of building.
The stories in this volume are linked by a common thread: the idea of the mother. They represent a range of responses to the concept of the maternal, exposing how the traditional deification of motherhood in India often conceals a collective exploitation and attempt to restrict women to their socially prescribed roles while denying them the right to articulate their individual needs and desires. At the same time, they also show the strategies evolved by women to survive and circumvent the repression inflicted on them by social norms. The maternal thus emerges as an ambivalent concept, with both restrictive and emancipatory potential.
Radha Chakravarty is an academic and translator. She teaches at Gargi College, University of Delhi,and is currently working on English translationsof major Bengali writers. She has contributed essays and review articles to various journals and critical anthologies.

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Writer

মহাশ্বেতা দেবী

Translator

Radha Chakravarty

Publisher

Seagull Books

ISBN

9788170462118

Language

English (US)

Country

India

Format

Paperback

First Published

2004

Pages

85

মহাশ্বেতা দেবী

মহাশ্বেতা দেবী (১৪ জানুয়ারি ১৯২৬ – ২৮ জুলাই ২০১৬) ছিলেন একজন ভারতীয় বাঙালি কথাসাহিত্যিক ও মানবাধিকার আন্দোলনকর্মী। তার উল্লেখযোগ্য রচনাগুলি হল হাজার চুরাশির মা, রুদালি, অরণ্যের অধিকার ইত্যাদি। মহাশ্বেতা দেবী ভারতের পশ্চিমবঙ্গ, বিহার, মধ্যপ্রদেশ ও ছত্তীসগঢ় রাজ্যের আদিবাসী উপজাতিগুলির (বিশেষত লোধা ও শবর উপজাতি) অধিকার ও ক্ষমতায়নের জন্য কাজ করেছিলেন। তিনি সাহিত্য অকাদেমি পুরস্কার (বাংলায়), জ্ঞানপীঠ পুরস্কার ও র‍্যামন ম্যাগসাইসাই পুরস্কার সহ একাধিক সাহিত্য পুরস্কার এবং ভারতের চতুর্থ ও দ্বিতীয় সর্বোচ্চ অসামরিক সম্মান যথাক্রমে পদ্মশ্রী ও পদ্মবিভূষণ লাভ করেন। পশ্চিমবঙ্গ সরকার তাকে পশ্চিমবঙ্গের সর্বোচ্চ অসামরিক সম্মান বঙ্গবিভূষণে ভূষিত করেছিল।

Radha Chakravarty

Radha Chakravarty