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Won’t You Stay, Radhika?
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Speaking Tiger
| Author:
Usha Priyamvada ,Daisy Rockwell (Translator)
| Language:
English
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Paperback
Publisher:
Speaking Tiger
Author:
Usha Priyamvada ,Daisy Rockwell (Translator)
Language:
English
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After her widowed father marries a younger woman, Radhika’s world falls apart. She feels betrayed—the emotional and intellectual bond that she had forged with him since the early death of her mother breaks with that sudden marriage. To escape the unbearable situation at home—the growing rift between her and her father—Radhika moves to Chicago to pursue her master’s in fine arts. She returns to India two years later, burdened by a sense of alienation and homesickness, only to realize that while nothing had changed in her country, everything had. The family that she had longed to be reunited with barely acknowledges her arrival. The sense of belonging is missing, leaving her in ‘an emotional state of in-between-ness, of universal unbelonging’. As days pass, Radhika is paralysed with ennui, which tinges all her relationships—romantic or filial. So she lies on her takht, bored, immobile, uninspired…
An extraordinary chronicler of the inner lives of the urban Indian woman, Usha Priyamvada is a pioneering figure in modern Hindi literature. Won’t You Stay, Radhika?, first published in 1967, expertly explores the stifling and narrow-minded social ideals that continue to trap so many Indian women in the complex web of individual freedom, and social and familial obligation. Daisy Rockwell’s sensitive and skilful translation brings this poignant Hindi novel to a new set of readers.
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After her widowed father marries a younger woman, Radhika’s world falls apart. She feels betrayed—the emotional and intellectual bond that she had forged with him since the early death of her mother breaks with that sudden marriage. To escape the unbearable situation at home—the growing rift between her and her father—Radhika moves to Chicago to pursue her master’s in fine arts. She returns to India two years later, burdened by a sense of alienation and homesickness, only to realize that while nothing had changed in her country, everything had. The family that she had longed to be reunited with barely acknowledges her arrival. The sense of belonging is missing, leaving her in ‘an emotional state of in-between-ness, of universal unbelonging’. As days pass, Radhika is paralysed with ennui, which tinges all her relationships—romantic or filial. So she lies on her takht, bored, immobile, uninspired…
An extraordinary chronicler of the inner lives of the urban Indian woman, Usha Priyamvada is a pioneering figure in modern Hindi literature. Won’t You Stay, Radhika?, first published in 1967, expertly explores the stifling and narrow-minded social ideals that continue to trap so many Indian women in the complex web of individual freedom, and social and familial obligation. Daisy Rockwell’s sensitive and skilful translation brings this poignant Hindi novel to a new set of readers.
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उषा प्रियम्वदा
शिक्षा : इलाहाबाद विश्वविद्यालय से अंग्रेज़ी साहित्य में पीएच.डी., इंडियाना यूनिवर्सिटी, ब्लूमिंगटन, अमेरिका में तुलनात्मक साहित्य में दो वर्ष पोस्ट-डॉक्टरल शोध। अध्यापन के प्रथम तीन वर्ष दिल्ली के लेडी श्रीराम कॉलेज में, तदुपरान्त इलाहाबाद विश्वविद्यालय में दो वर्ष में सम्पन्न करके, विस्कांसिन विश्वविद्यालय मेडिसन के दक्षिण एशियाई विभाग में प्रोफ़ेसर रहीं। हिन्दी और अंग्रेज़ी, दोनों ही भाषाओं में समान रूप से दक्ष उषा प्रियम्वदा ने साहित्य सृजन के लिए हिन्दी और समीक्षा, अनुवाद और अन्य बौद्धिक क्षेत्रों के लिए अंग्रेज़ी का चयन किया।
प्रकाशित पुस्तकें : उपन्यास : ‘पचपन खम्भे लाल दीवारें’ (1961), ‘रुकोगी नहीं राधिका’ (1966), ‘शेष यात्रा’ (1984), ‘अन्तर-वंशी’ (2000), ‘भया कबीर उदास’ (2007); कहानी-संग्रह : ‘फिर बसंत आया’ (1961), ‘ज़िन्दगी और गुलाब के फूल’ (1961), ‘एक कोई दूसरा’ (1966), ‘कितना बड़ा झूठ’, ‘मेरी प्रिय कहानियाँ’, ‘शून्य एवं अन्य रचनाएँ’, ‘सम्पूर्ण कहानियाँ’, ‘प्रतिनिधि कहानियाँ’ (1997)।
इसके अतिरिक्त भारतीय साहित्य, लोककथा एवं मध्यकालीन भक्ति काव्य पर अनेक लेख जो अंग्रेज़ी में समय-समय पर प्रकाशित हुए। मीराबाई और सूरदास के अंग्रेज़ी अनुवाद ‘साहित्य अकादेमी’, नई दिल्ली ने पुस्तक रूप में प्रकाशित किए। उन्होंने आधुनिक हिन्दी कहानियों के भी अनुवाद किए।
इंडियन स्टडीज विभाग से संलग्न रहते हुए 1977 में उन्हें 'फुल प्रोफ़ेसर ऑफ़ इंडियन लिट्रेचर’ का पद मिला। 2002 में अवकाश लेकर अब पूरा समय लेखन, अध्ययन और बाग़वानी में बिता रही हैं।
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