A Wise One, a Warrior - (Objects Talk Back) by Meena Kandasamy (Paperback)
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Highlights
- A narrative of the early modern Indian sculpture known as the Mithuna couple.
- About the Author: Meena Kandasamy is a poet, novelist, and translator.
- 48 Pages
- Architecture, Buildings
- Series Name: Objects Talk Back
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Book Synopsis
A narrative of the early modern Indian sculpture known as the Mithuna couple. Meena Kandasamy writes about the Mithuna couple, a seventeenth-century ivory sculpture from Tamil Nadu, India, depicting lovers. Kandasamy unfurls a multi-layered, multi-directional narrative built from images, questions, and contradictions evoked by the sculpture. "How can we look at this work and not talk about who produced it?" Kandasamy asks and then examines how caste and class are carved into the object as indelibly as its physical details. Such knowledge complicates easy associations of love that may be evoked by the couple. Refusing any impulse to idealize or exoticize, Kandasamy connects the carving to personal and political stories that expose painful realities of who gets to love whom, and how. She sets the intimate alongside the institutional to interrogate terms such as decolonize, restitution, and preservation. Through an astonishing stylistic mix, including Twitter, academic discourse, poetry, and memoir, she talks back, forward, and sideways with the object.About the Author
Meena Kandasamy is a poet, novelist, and translator. Her books include the poetry collections Touch and Ms. Militancy and three novels, The Gypsy Goddess, When I Hit You, and Exquisite Cadavers. Her novels have been shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, the International Dylan Thomas Prize, the Jhalak Prize, and the Hindu Lit Prize. The Book of Desire, her translation of the love poetry of the two-thousand-year-old Tamil classic Tirukkural, was published in 2023.Dimensions (Overall): 7.48 Inches (H) x 4.72 Inches (W) x .4 Inches (D)
Weight: .19 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 48
Genre: Architecture
Sub-Genre: Buildings
Series Title: Objects Talk Back
Publisher: Diaphanes
Theme: Public, Commercial & Industrial
Format: Paperback
Author: Meena Kandasamy
Language: English
Street Date: September 25, 2025
TCIN: 1006060611
UPC: 9783035807547
Item Number (DPCI): 247-32-5042
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
Shipping details
Estimated ship dimensions: 0.4 inches length x 4.72 inches width x 7.48 inches height
Estimated ship weight: 0.19 pounds
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