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ONION CURRY
& THE NINE TIMES TABLE : THE SAMYUKTA ANTHOLOGY
OF MALAYALAM STORIES
G.S. Jayasree
& Sreedevi Nair (EDs.)
Rs. 175 Pb 2006
81-88965-29-4
(All rights available.)
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This selection contains some of the most fascinating
contemporary Malayalam stories by women. A struggling
single mother listens to her little girl’s urgent and
original projects to bring them riches. The arctic
landscapes of her childhood reading shift strangely
when a woman decides to visit them for herself. Another
story describes an ordinary afternoon where nothing really
happens—except that dreamscapes resurface with an
undertow of remembered pain. Stories possess a fine-grained
sense of place—claustrophobic tharavads, forest sounds,
the songs of fishermen. Sexual violence is explored in all
its complexity—male fears, a girl's pleasure in her body,
recurring encounters with casual abuse, with fiction that
does violence to female experience. These stories
first appeared in
Samyukta: A Journal of Women's Studies
brought out by the Samyukta Women's Studies Collective.
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G.S. JAYASREE
is Reader in English and
Director of the Centre for Women's Studies at the
University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram, and is Editor of
Samyukta: A Journal of Women's Studies.
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SREEDEVI K. NAIR
MEHDI
teaches English at
the N.S.S. College for Women, Thiruvananthapuram. Her book
Malayalathinte Kathaakaarikal carries
interviews with ten Malayalam women writers, and she has received the Kerala
Lalithakala Akademi Award for translation.
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