Joothan: A Dalit's Life: An Untouchable's Life - Rilegato

Valmiki, Omaprakasa

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ISBN 10: 0231129726 ISBN 13: 9780231129725

Casa editrice: Columbia Univ Pr, 2003

Riassunto

Omprakash Valmiki's Joothan, an autobiographical account of his birth and upbringing as an untouchable, or Dalit, in the newly independent India of the 1950s, is one of the first portrayals of Dalit life in north India from an insider's perspective. "Joothan" literally means scraps of food left on a plate, destined for the garbage or for the family pet in a middle-class urban home. It is related to the word "jootha," which means polluted, and such scraps are characterized as "joothan" only if someone else eats them. India's untouchables have been forced to accept and eat joothan for their subsistence for centuries. The word encapsulates the pain, humiliation, and poverty of this community, which has lived at the bottom of India's social pyramid for millennia. Although untouchability was legally abolished in the constitution of the newly independent India in 1949, Dalits continue to face discrimination, economic deprivation, violence, and ridicule.

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L'autore:

Omprakash Valmiki is the author of two collections of poetry and one of short stories. As editor and publisher of numerous magazines, he has played a vital role in the propagation of Dalit literature.Arun Prabha Mukherjee is professor of English at York University in Toronto. She is the author of Postcolonialism: My Living andOppositional Aesthetics: Readings from a Hyphenated Space.

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Book by Omprakash Valmiki

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• Editore: Columbia Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0231129726
• ISBN 13: 9780231129725
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 160