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VERMILLION
CLOUDS :
A CENTURY OF WOMEN'S STORIES FROM BENGAL
Radha Chakravarty (Ed.&Trs.)
Rs 350 Pb 2010
81-88965-51-0
(All rights available)
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Featured here are the best known and significant women writers of
Bengal of the last hundred years. Both style and content reveal
the extent to which their worlds have changed, subtly and
dramatically, even as the writing itself becomes simultaneously,
creative and political. This anthology presents an astonishing variety
of themes: among others are same-sex love, business
entrepreneurship, love outside marriage, and the death of
parents. Woman as daughter, wife, sister, mother appears here
in her many avatars. This collection maps the bold contours of a broad
but uneven terrain, with all the surprises and excitement this promises.
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RADHA
CHAKRAVARTY
teaches literature at
Gargi College, University of Delhi.
She is the author of
Feminism and Contemporary Women Writers: Rethinking Subjectivity.
Her books in translation include Bankimchandra's
Kapalkundal;
Tagore's
Chokher Bali; Farewell Song:Shesher Kabita; Gora; Boyhood Days
and
The Land of Cards: Stories, Poems & Plays for Children;
Mahasweta Devi's
In the Name of the Mother:
Four Stories, and
the anthologyCrossings:
Stories from Bangladesh and India.
She has editedBodymaps: Stories by
South Asian Women,and is currently
co-editingThe Essential Tagore
for Visva Bharati and Harvard.
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| [The]
imagery is vivid with local colour and dialogues remain tied
to Indian rather then imported contexts. Chakravarty
succeeds admirably in her translation |
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—The Tribune
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| The evolution
of women's writing is the story of a civilisation inching
towards modernity. Which is what makes this anthology of
short stories written by women over a hundred years so interesting. |
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—Business Standard
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| .. .
a representative collections of women's
writings spanning almost a century. Chakravarty has
done a good job of rendering the stories into English.
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—The Telegraph
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