OLD WOMEN: STATUE AND THE FAIRY TALE OF MOHANPUR

Book ID/图书代码： 12010014B67020

English Summary/英文概要： The two stories in this collection are poignant tales, in both of which the protagonists are old women—in ‘Statue’, a tragic forbidden love returns to haunt Dulali, now an old woman preoccupied only with filling her stomach and surviving from day to day. In ‘The Fairy tale of Mohanpur’, Andi loses her eyes through poverty, societal indifference and governmental apathy, even as she persists in her faith in fairy tale solutions. Mahasweta Devi is at her most tender in her sensitive, delicate portraits of these two old women although her trenchant pen is as ruthless as ever in delienating the socioeconomic oppression they are forced to survive.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 本书中的两个故事都令人哀伤。这两个故事的主角是老妇人。在“雕像”这个故事中一段被打压的悲剧性爱情萦绕在 Dulali 心头，她如今已是一位老妇人，为填饱肚子让自己活着而挣扎。在“莫汉普尔的童话故事”中，由于贫困、社会的无情和政府的冷漠安迪失去了双眼，而她却一直坚信童话般的结局。Mahasweta Devi以她最柔情的一面用敏感柔软的笔触描绘了这两位老妇人，但在刻画她们被迫承受的社会经济压迫时她犀利的笔调保持着一如既往的铿锵。(LNL)

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About the Author/作者介绍： GAYATRI CHAKRAVORTY SPIVAK是哥伦比亚大学人文学科教授，著作颇多，作品包括《在其它世界》、《后殖民时代评论家》、《教学机器之外》、《后殖民时代理性之评论》、《一项学科的消亡》、《谁为民族国家歌唱》（与Judith Butler合著）、《民族主义与想象力》、《哈莱姆区》，最后三部著作由海鸥图书出版。

GAYATRI CHAKRAVORTY SPIVAK is University Professor in humanities at Columbia University and author of many books including In Other Worlds, The Post-Colonial Critic, Outside in the Teaching Machine, A Critique of Postcolonial Reason, Death of a Discipline, Who Sings the Nation-State? (with Judith Butler), Nationalism and the Imagination and Harlem, the last three published by Seagull Books.

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Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：rights sold in French (Actes Sud), Japanese (Gendaikikakushitsu Publishers)

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