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“He has never known a more spontaneous woman; and yet, reading her with his filmy fore-knowledge holds the danger of revelation: she has nothing to offer except rehearsed moves” — Meena Kandasamy, Exquisite Cadavers (25)
Exquisite Cadavers by poet-translator-activist-fiction writer Meena Kandasamy, is an intimate portrait of how a relationship(s) holds identities, dreams and manifestos.
In the preface, Kandasamy describes how the book started following the response of her previous novel that drew from her experience within an abusive marriage: “Some reviewers were sidestepping the entire artistic edifice on which the work stood, and were instead solely defining me by my experience: raped Indian woman, beaten-up wife… as a woman writer I was not even given the autonomy of deciding the genre to which the book I had spent years writing, belonged,” Kandasamy writes.
Exquisite Cadavers’ format holds fiction at the center, with margins that almost act as an autobiography of the fiction that they border.
The fiction bleeds into the writer’s current realities, and the two unfold together.
In short, the book is a gift — it offers access into an imagination of the writing process by weaving together multiple realities.