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About This Book
Bama is a Tamil Dalit feminist writer and novelist. Her autobiographical novel Karukku, which chronicles the joys and sorrows experienced by Dalit Christians in Tamil Nadu, catapulted her to fame. As a prolific writer, she has experimented with all kinds of genres, such as novels, short stories, poems, autobiographical writing, children's literature, and discursive essays. This book presents a dedicated study of Bama's work as a writer and activist and situates her in the context of Dalit literature in general and Tamil Dalit literature in particular. It recognises Bama as writer of great relevance especially in bringing to the fore the problematics of Dalit issues and their possible modes of aesthetic articulation through a new Dalit language.
Part of the Writer in Context series, this book will be useful for scholars and researchers of Indian literature, Dalit Literature, Dalit Studies, Tamil literature, English literature, comparative literature, postcolonial studies, cultural studies, Green studies. global south studies and translation studies.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Preface to the Series
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- SECTION I Documenting Many Dalit WorldsFiction by Bama
- SECTION II Poems by Bama
- SECTION III Voices of Dissent and Protest
- SECTION IV Interviews with Bama
- SECTION V In the Public Gaze
- SECTION VI Bamaâs Evolving Life
- Bio-Notes of Editors and Contributors
- Index