Breast Stories, Paperback/Mahasweta Devi

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Contributor(s): Author: Mahasweta Devi Translator: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Mahasweta Devi is one of India s foremost literary figures, a prolific and best-selling author in Bengali of short fiction and novels, and a deeply political social activist who has been working in marginalized communities for decades."Breast Stories"is a collection of short fiction that focuses on the breast as more than a symbol of beauty, eroticism, or motherhood. Instead, it is seen 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 s acerbic writing exposes the inherently vicious systems in Indian society. "

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Seagull Books

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Carte straina/Fiction & related items/Fiction: general & literary