Meena Kandasamy Bücher

Meena Kandasamys sprachgewaltiger autobiografischer Roman erzählt die Chronik einer missbräuchlichen Ehe und feiert die unbesiegbare Kraft der Kunst. Eine kluge, wilde und mutige Auseinandersetzung mit der Ehe im modernen Indien – und nicht nur dort. Verführt von Politik, Poesie und dem Traum, gemeinsam eine bessere Welt zu schaffen, verliebt sich eine junge Frau in ihren charismatischen Professor. Nach der Hochzeit zieht sie zu ihm in eine verregnete Küstenstadt in einer Region Indiens, deren Sprache sie nicht beherrscht, und muss entdecken, dass ihr perfekter Mann sich hinter verschlossenen Türen in ein perfektes Monster verwandelt. Als er sie auf seine idealisierte Version einer gehorsamen Frau reduziert, sie schikaniert und ihren Ehrgeiz, Schriftstellerin zu werden, im Keim erstickt, schwört sie, sich zu wehren, auch wenn ihre Familie sie drängt, in der Ehe zu bleiben – ein Widerstand, der sie entweder töten oder ihr die Freiheit zurückgeben wird.

Coming with giant grass-roots support and extraordinary critical acclaim, When I Hit You has moved readers to laughter, to anger, to tears ... and to action.

Tamil Nadu, 1968. Landlords rule over a feudal system that forces peasants to break their backs in the fields or be punished. As a small spark of defiance begins to spread among communities, the landlords vow to break them; party organizers suffer grisly deaths and the flow of food into the marketplaces dries up. But it only strengthens the villagers' resistance. Finally, the landlords descend on one village to set an example for the others. An exciting new release from this Chennai-based poet, writer and activist.

The Book of Desire is the award-winning (and Women's Prize-shortlisted) writer Meena Kandasamy's luminous translation of the Kamattu-p-pal, a 2000-year-old song of love and pleasure and the third part of the Thirukkural - one of the most important texts in Tamil literature. Written by the poet Thiruvalluvar, the Kamattu-p-pal section of the Thirukkural focuses on love and female sensuality. It is the most intimate section of this great work - and also, historically, the part that has been most heavily censored. Although hundreds of male translations of the text have been published, it has also only ever been translated by a woman once before. The Book of Desire is Meena's own feminist reclamation of the Kamattu-p-pal. With her trademark wit, lyricism and passionate insight, she weaves a magic spell: taking the reader on a journey through 250 kurals (short verses), organised under separate headings - 'The Pleasure of Sex', 'Renouncing Shame', 'The Delights of Sulking - the result is

A fierce, tender, political collection that asks how to express the fullness of identity and desire in the face of a hostile state. All discipline a deception to hide the wildness, all symmetry an excuse for keeping count. Tomorrow Someone Will Arrest You cements Meena Kandasamy as one of the most exciting, radical thinkers at work today. These poems chronicle wanting, art-making, and the practising of resistance and solidarity in the face of a hostile state. Here, the personal is political, and Kandasamy moves between sex, desire, family and wider societal issues of caste, the refugee crisis, and freedom of expression with grace and defiance. This is a bold, unforgettable collection by a poet who compels us to sit up and listen.