Chotti Munda and His Arrow by Mahasweta Devi (9781405107044)

Description - Chotti Munda and His Arrow by Mahasweta Devi

Written in 1980, this novel by prize-winning Indian writer
Mahasweta Devi, translated and introduced by Gayatri Chakravorty
Sprivak, is remarkable for the way in which it touches on vital
issues that have in subsequent decades grown into matters of urgent
social conern.

Written by one of India?s foremost novelists, and
translated by an eminent cultural and critical theorist.

Ranges over decades in the life of Chotti ? the central
character ? in which India moves from colonial rule to
independence, and then to the unrest of the 1970s.

Traces the changes, some forced, some welcome, in the daily
lives of a marginalized rural community.

Raises questions about the place of the tribal on the map of
national identity, land rights and human rights, the
?museumization? of ?ethnic? cultures, and
the justifications of violent resistance as the last resort of a
desperate people.

Represents enlightening reading for students and scholars of
postcolonial literature and postcolonial studies.

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