ReadingNotes
Week 17
Part A &B
Last Week
- Mahasweta Devi in the text is said to be one of the "most important fiction and prose writer in the Bengali language since India's decolonization in 1947". Devi was born 1926 into a Hindu family that was very well educated and many people in her family had careers mostly in literature.
- As she was being educated it came to a halt when she married Bijon Bhattcharya who was also know for his work in plays like "Nabanna" that depicted the 1942 Bengal famine. His work was said to "reform modern indian drama". He also was an activist like Devi but specifically in the Communist Part in India before it was officially banned in 1949. A side note in a different class I was just talking about something similar to this and being thankful that the US doesn't go as far as violating our rights and blatantly say you can't believe in whatever you choose.
- They both had a son in 1948 but thing became rocky when it came to the finical aspect of raising a family for Bijon being overwhelmed by theater work and barley coming home at times and without an income this forced Devi to live in poverty at a time and struggle with malnutrition.
- She eventually was able to feed herself as income came in when she began to work and Bijon and Devi divorced and this allowed Devi to finish her graduate studies and this started her back on the path of literature were she would soon write some powerful material.
- On being "Giribala" a story of a women seeming similar to Devi life just because her life seemed to pause when she became married and both of their marriages affected their lives drastically at one point in time.
- Although there are many things different between Giribala and Devi because in the story the young women is involved in an arranged marriage with a man that wasn't who he seemed to be at first and head an addiction to weed.
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