Viramma
Life of an Untouchable
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- 320 páginas
- 12 horas de lectura
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Viramma tells her fascinating life story with the unsentimentality, humor and dramatic sense of a born her carefree childhood; her marriage before puberty; giving birth to twelve children ‘very gently, like stroking a rose’; adult life as an agricultural worker ‘condemned to bake in the sun’; tales of gods and malign forces, like Irsi Katteri ‘the foetus-eater’, who cast their shadow over her daily life.Told over ten years to Josiane and Jean-Luc Racine, this is an intensely personal and moving self-portrait, informed by a sense of profound social change in contemporary India. To emancipationists Viramma is a Dalit, one of the oppressed; to Gandhians she is a Harijan, a daughter of God; in her village she is still treated as an Untouchable, a Pariah. In this remarkable book she reveals the world of an extraordinary woman living at the very margins of Indian society.
Compra de libros
Viramma, Viramma, Jean-Luc Racine, Will Hobson, John L. Varriano, Josiane Racine
- Idioma
- Publicado en
- 1997
- Encuadernación
- (Tapa blanda)
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- Título
- Viramma
- Subtítulo
- Life of an Untouchable
- Idioma
- Inglés
- Editorial
- Verso Books
- Publicado en
- 1997
- Formato
- Tapa blanda
- Páginas
- 320
- ISBN10
- 1859841481
- ISBN13
- 9781859841488
- Serie
- Categorías
- Etiquetas
- Tema histórico, Comercio, Aventura, Temas psicológicos, Temática filosófica, Amor, Familia, Mujeres, Espiritualidad y Religión, Cristianismo, Amistad, Relaciones, Educación, Escuela, Muerte, Sociedad, Cultura y Sociedad, Feminismo, Matrimonio, Cultura, India, Dinero, Iglesia, Género, Bodas, Globalización, Infidelidad, Comunidad, Envejecimiento, Estrategia, Cuerpo, Playas, Tristeza, Neerlandés, Condiciones sociales, Clases sociales, Economía del comportamiento
- Calificación
- 3,45 de 5
- Descripción
- Viramma tells her fascinating life story with the unsentimentality, humor and dramatic sense of a born her carefree childhood; her marriage before puberty; giving birth to twelve children ‘very gently, like stroking a rose’; adult life as an agricultural worker ‘condemned to bake in the sun’; tales of gods and malign forces, like Irsi Katteri ‘the foetus-eater’, who cast their shadow over her daily life.Told over ten years to Josiane and Jean-Luc Racine, this is an intensely personal and moving self-portrait, informed by a sense of profound social change in contemporary India. To emancipationists Viramma is a Dalit, one of the oppressed; to Gandhians she is a Harijan, a daughter of God; in her village she is still treated as an Untouchable, a Pariah. In this remarkable book she reveals the world of an extraordinary woman living at the very margins of Indian society.