Seeing in the Dark

Short Stories by R. Chudamani
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-0-19-945967-4
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 142 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 272 g

'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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chudamani, R.

Sridevan, Prabhar

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatur: Sammlungen, Anthologien
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Postkoloniale Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Translator's Note

- Introduction: Unfolding Wings of Thought in the Inner Air (by Prema Nandakumar)

- Kinship Terms

- A Trace of Envy

- We Don't 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

- Doctoramma's 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

Über Autor(innen)

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.