| Publisher |
OM BOOKS INTERNATIONAL |
| Publication Year |
2025 |
| ISBN-13 |
9789363953208 |
| ISBN-10 |
9363953203 |
| Binding |
Paperback |
| Number of Pages |
260 Pages |
| Language |
(English) |
| Weight (grms) |
180 |
| Subject |
Sociology |
Rising from the Dust brings together twelve stories that talk about the Dalit experience in Bengal. What distinguishes this collection is the gendered lens that explores the Dalit woman’s cause and holds it up to the light.
While literary stalwarts like Saratchandra Chattopadhyay, Tarashankar Bandopadhyay and Prafulla Roy share their profound understanding of the Dalit woman’s fears and traumas, hopes, dreams and aspirations, contemporary voices Manoranjan Byapari, Bimalendu Haldar, Manohar Mouli Biswas, Kalyani Thakur Charal, Anil Ghorai and Nakul Mallik explore aspects of survival and social ostracization with both sensitivity and angst.
Spanning an entire century of writing, the stories in this collection capture the essence of a way of life marked by the enduring defiant spirit of the dispossessed and the marginalized. Translated by Aruna Chakravarti with her trademark expertise, this is a must-read not only for literary enthusiasts, but also for students and scholars of Dalit and caste studies, development studies, Indian literature in translation and gender studies.
Aruna Chakravarti
Aruna Chakravarti was Principal of Janki Devi Memorial College, University of Delhi. She is also a well-known academic, writer and translator and has contributed widely for national and international journals. Her volume of translated stories from the masters of contemporary Bengali fiction entitled The Way Home appeared in 2006. Her first attempt at creative writing a novel The Inheritors, was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize 2004. Secret Spaces, a volume of her own short stories, was published in April 2010.She has also contributed a piece The Broken Nest, a translation of Rabindranath Tagore s novella Nashta Needh to the volume entitled The Essential Tagore and a simultaneous volume of the same name by Visva-Bharati. Among her forthcoming publications is Jorasanko a novel based on the lives of the women of the Tagore family. Aruna Chakravarti is the recipient of several prestigious awards. Among them are the Vaitalik Award, the Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize and the Sarat Puraskar.
Aruna Chakravarti
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