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The Magic Web and Other Stories is a collection of eighteen of Ashapurna Debi`s short stories on the lives of widows. Through these stories in this collection, we are introduced to women who are bound by rituals and interested in gossip, living the lives of the widows dictated by the shastras. The stories also show the lives unbecoming women who refuse to hear the voice of everyday morality and silence the promptings of received values.
In the domestic world that the author brings to the reader, one also finds the rational, sensible, modern, urban gentleman all but merely the camouflaged victims of patriarchy. There are also tales where traces of deeply entrenched desires, expressed through gestures and silences, signify the buried emotions in the lives of women. Between conscience and custom, reason and prejudice, oppression and agency, these narratives show a rare sensitiveness to the deprivations and vulnerabilities, the triumphs and rebellion, the noise amidst the silences of the widow and her world.ISBN:978812504708
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Pages : 244
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