Description
Across these stories, the breast becomes more than anatomy: it is a charged metaphor for how patriarchal power can commodify, punish, and silence women—even as it also sparks forms of resistance. With Mahasweta Devi’s fierce, activist-inflected storytelling (translated by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak), readers move through lives shaped by caste, poverty, and gendered violence, where the marginalized are rendered as fully human while the privileged often treat their bodies as objects. The narratives braid intimate bodily experience with social critique, confronting the horror of exploitation and the brutal costs of survival. In “Breast-giver,” a woman’s labor as a wet-nurse—undertaken to keep her family afloat—collides with the devastating betrayal of her own body, illuminating how oppression can persist even in the most private spaces.
Available Editions
paperback
Seagull Books
Published Jan 1, 1997
160 pages
ISBN: 8170461405
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Details
First Published
1997
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Breast Stories by Mahasweta Devi.