Manu V. Devadevan
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| Occupation | Writer, Historian |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Genres | Poetry, Criticism |
Manu V. Devadevan (September 14, 1977) is a poet writing in Kannada. His first anthology of poems, Khandavide Ko Mamsavide Ko was published in 2008. It includes path-breaking poems like Manipurada myapu, Bahuroopa, Leukamia, Tarkovskiya diary, Pramadvara, Kempu hakki and Khandavide ko mamsavide ko. His poems are being translated to English and Bangla. Devadevan is also prolific as a translator. He has translated contemporary Malayalam and UttarAdhunik Bangla poetry into Kannada and Kannada poetry and plays into Malayalam. Devadevan is also a Marxist historian and a political theorist.
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[edit] Life and career
Devadevan was born in Kozhencherry, in Pathanamthitta district of Kerala. He had his schooling in Bangalore. He discontinued studies after Pre University Course and joined Indian railways in 1996, where he worked as a clerk with the Civil Engineering department at the Hubli divisional office, South Central Railway for five years. In 2001, he resigned from railways and began independent research into history, political theory, philosophy and literature. Devadevan obtained his Master's degree in history from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi in 2005 and won the fellowship in Kannada literature awarded by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt. of India the same year.
[edit] Khandavide ko mamsavide ko
The poems in Khandavide ko mamsavide ko show a sense of deep political restlessness. As far as language is concerned, they are experimental. The poet displays a wide variety of styles and metaphors, expressing confidence in language and its potentials for creating new forms of artistic expression. There is concern about form and craftsmanship in these poems. At the level of content, they are full of dark humour, farce, a sense of cynicism bordering on sadism, and a celebration of the Dionysian ideal.
[edit] Nihilism
In his poems and literary essays Devadevan presents a form of Nihilism which treats all human affiliations as potentially dangerous in today's political context.[1] The world has seen too much of tyrannies in the name of religious, nationalist, ethnic and linguistic identities, but Devadevan holds that affiliations which go by the name of dalit, leftist, women and queer movements are no exception. It is only a matter of time before an emancipatory project becomes virile and destructive. This view is expressed in poems like Musuku, Pagadeyata, Leukamia, Tarkovskiya Diary and Modala Patha. In Modala Patha, the poet says that we have to mercilessly tear apart all binding ties. It is the first lesson we all learnt. It is a lesson which we should not forgot even after "the corpse-weight of learnings cease". The lesson was taught us by the midwives who tore our umbilical cords the moment we were born.[2]
[edit] Historian and Political Theorist
Devadevan is also a historian and a political theorist. He is presently engaged in a revisionist history of medieval India.[3]. He believes that it is not possible to write regional or local histories, or produce theories specific to area studies. According to him, the only possible history is a world history.
[edit] Footnotes
1. "Adondu Ayata Galige, in Keshava Malagi's Angada Dhare, Abhinava, Bangalore, 2006, p.9-26.
2. Khandavide Ko Mamsavide Ko, Nag Hammadi, Bangalore, 2008.
3. "Lying on the Edge of the Burning Ground: Rethinking Tinais. JESHO 49.2, p.199-218.
[edit] External Links
1. www.springerlink.com/index/G08651P406547281.pdf [1]
2. www.istitutodatini.it/biblio/riviste/o-q/orient5.htm [2]
3. www.ttk.gov.tr/data/2006/jesho49-2.htm [3]
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