Mahasweta’s fiction and activism mirror each other without ever coinciding

Evidence

It has always fascinated me that, although her writing and her activism reflect one another, they are precisely that—“a folding back upon” one another—re-flection in the root sense. The Afterword will therefore also concentrate upon the difference between the literary text and the textile of activism. Indeed, if one reads carefully, one may be seen as the other’s differance. — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 2180