Kunapipi 19(3) Contents

Kunapipi

Kunapipi

Volume 19 Issue 3

Article 2

1997

Kunapipi 19(3) Contents

Kunapipi 19(3) Contents

Anna Rutherford

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Contents

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VOLUME XIX NUMBER 3, 1997

ANNA RUTHERFORD

Guest Editor

SHIRLEY CHEW

Editorial Advisors

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Acknowledgements

Kunapipi

is published with assistance

from

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branch

of

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Commonwealth Literature

and Language Studtes,

Faculty of

Arts and

the

Centre

for

Research

in Textual and

Studies

(CRITACS)

at

the University

of

Wollongong

,

and

Council of England.

We wish to thank all contributors to this journal and also to acknowledge writers and publishers perm1ss1on to reprint extracts from the followmg

San1ukta Dasgupta, 'To Avanllsundari', 'Trapped', 'Red Ants' from ::.n.oroS111081tl

(Calcutta: Writers Workshop). Shama Futehally, 'Photographs' was

The Book Review (New Delhi), vol. 17, no. 5, 1997. Githa Hariharan,

Deep, Deep Well', 'The Sting in the Scorpion's Tail' are excerpted from The r., • . . -of Vasu Master (New Delh~: Vikin~ 1994), pp. 235-48. N.P. Mohamed,

lhe Eye of God (Macmillan India: Chennai, 1997) a volume in the Modem

Novels in Translation Series, trans. by Gita Krishnankutty from Malayalam. A4_~•11• Sidhwa, excerpt from An American Brat (Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions).

Shash1 Deshpande, a vers1on of whose essay was delivered as a Plenary Lecture at IACLALS annual conference, 'Text and Culture', llyderabad, 23-25 janu.uy, 1997 Front cover: 'Mughal' 1996, by Sarbjit Natt (born 1962)

Textile dyes and pigments on silk (168.5x110 em) Back cover: Foreground: 'Turning the World Inside Out' 1997, by Amsh Kapoor

Stamless steel (148x184x188 em)

Funded from the proceeds of the National Lottery through the England

Back cover: Background: 'Humamty Overcommg War' 1925, by Francis Derwent Wood.

Serravezza Marble (2.9x2.lx1.4 m) All from the collections of Bradford Art Galleries and Museums.

hnally we would like to thank Sarah Graves for all her help with the rna

We have done our best to ensure that we have mduded all the people publishers who should be thanked. If we have inadvertently left anyone out wt apologize.

Kunapipi refers

to the Australian

Aboriginal Myth of

the

Rainbow

Serpent

which is the

symbol

both

of

creativity

and

regeneration.

The

journal's

emblem

is to be found

on

an

Aboriginal shield from

the Roper

River

area of

the Northern

Territory

in Australia.

~on

tents

CTION

'5uniti

'The

Message, the Medium

and

the Missionary'

14

~adat

Ha.o;an Manto

,

Happened

in

TRANS. ALOK BHALLA

~ahasweta Dev1~ 'From Sati'

43

· TRANS. RANJANA ASH

!Aamer

Hussein

'S

weet Rice

'

51

tshama

Futehally,

'Photographs'

59

f

Citha Hariharan

'From The Ghosts of

Vasu Master

'

75

'W.P.

Mohamed,

'From

The

Eye of God'

94

TRANS. Gn A KRISHNANKUT! Y

~Nirmal Verma

,

'Terminal'

!•TRANS. ALOK BHALLA

~psi

Sidhwa

,

'From

An American Brat'

128

r;,eelum Saran

Gour,

'Song

Without

End'

134

f}iukhsana Ahmad

,

'After

Life'

166

roETRY

faiz Ahmed

Faiz,

'The

Dawn

of Freedom' (Pakistan 1947)

t TRANS. SIIOAIB I lAS! !MI

~njukta

Dasgupta

,

'To Avanhsundari'

'

'Trapped'

"Red

Ants

'

·

•Sometimes

'

shna

Bose

,

'Donation'

~Hymn

to the

Goddess'

'fRANS. SANJUKTA DASGUPTA

taki Kushari Dyson

,

'Short Story'

'Historical'

TRANS. SANJUKIA DASGUPTA

P!'Jata

Bhatt

,

'Squirrels'

'Meeting the Artist in Durban'

fshwar Naheed,

'The

Palace

of

Wax'

rtJte Land

of

the Burning Sun'

nlte Prayer

of

the

Unborn'

iJRANS. SIIOAIB HASIIMI

itav

Ghosh,

'T

he

March of the

Novel through llistory

:

IJhe

Tt!stimony

of

my

Grandfather's Bookcase'

1

40

40

41

42

83

108

109

139

141

153

154

155

Alok Bhalla

,

'Dance

of

Grotesque

Masks:

A Critical Reading of Manto's"1919 Ke Ek Baat'

"

22

Shashi

Deshpande

,

'

Where do we belong?

The

"

Pr

o

blem"

of English

in India'

65

Sujit

Mukherjee

,

'Transcreating

Translation

:

An

Indian

Mode

'

85

T

ejas

wini Niranjana

&

S.

V

Srinivas,

'

Managing the Crisis:

Bharateeyudu

and the Ambivalence

of

being

"Indian'"

111

AUTOBIOGRAPHIES

Sa

hma Ha

s

hmi

,

'Ra

mblings

o

f

a

Paint

e

r

'

142

Nima

Poovaya-Smith,

'Co

nfessions

of

an Indolent

Curator'

148

Baama

,

'

From

Karukku

,

the

autobiography of a

Tamil Dalit

woman'

TRANS. LAKSIIMI I IOLMSTROM

INTERVIEWS

'

Amitav

Ghosh

in intervi

ew

with Neluka

Silva

and Alex Tickell

'

171

'

Arundhati Roy in interview with Linden Thornton

'