Date: Wed, 09 Apr 1997 07:47:21 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sudipto Chatterjee <chattrj-AT-is3.nyu.edu>
Subject: Re: Mahasweta Devi


On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, Alison C Scheiderer wrote:

> I'm interested in reading Mahasweta Devi/Mahasveta Debi's work but am 
> findin it difficult because I don't know Bengali.  I have come across 
> english translations of her stories by Spivak and in the book "Women, 
> Peasants, Outcastes and Rebels," but none beyond that.  Im particularly 
> interested in reading her longer work- which am only aware of because of 
> the libraries online catalog system. So, what else has she written (Ive 
> read the stories: Douloti the Bountiful, Pterodactyl, ...?..Pirtha..?.., 
> Draupadi, Dhowli, the Funeral Wailer, The Witch-Hunt, and Strange Children)
> and what is available in english?

There is a translation available of at least one of her novels -- "The
Mother of 1084". The translator is Shamik Banerjee, if I remember
correctly. Mahasweta Debi's novella "Bashai Tudu" has also been
translated, I think jointly, by Spivak and Banerjee. Spivak has also
translated the short story "Breast-Giver", which appeared in Subaletrn
Studies vol. V (OUP, Delhi).

:Sudipto Chatterjee

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