I Speak for the Devil - Softcover

Dharker, Imtiaz

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ISBN 10: 0143030892 ISBN 13: 9780143030898

Publisher: Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd, 2003

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Imtiaz Dharker grew up a Muslim Calvinist in a Lahori household in Glasgow, was adopted by India and married into Wales. Her main themes are drawn from a life of childhood, exile, journeying, home, displacement, religious strife and terror, and latterly, grief. She is also an accomplished artist, and all her collections are illustrated with her drawings, which form an integral part of her books. In I Speak for the Devil, the woman’s body is a territory, a thing that is possessed, owned by herself or by another. Her sequence They’ll say, 'She must be from another country' traces a journey, starting with a striptease where the claims of nationality, religion and gender are cast off, to allow an exploration of new territories, the spaces between countries, cultures and religions. The title-sequence speaks for the devil in acknowledging that in many societies women are respected, or listened to, only when they are carrying someone else inside their bodies – a child; a devil. For some, to be "possessed" is to be set free.

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About the Author

Imtiaz Dharaker works as a documentary film maker in India. She is also an Artist, and conceives books as a sequence of poems and drawings. Her prewvious Bloodaxe editions Postcards from god (1997) Combined her two first Indian collections. She spends part of every year in London, and is avalible for readings in Britain.

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