Viramma : Life of an Untouchable

Varriano, John L.; Racine, Jean-Luc; Hobson, Will (TRN); Racine, Josiane

ISBN 10: 1859841481 / ISBN 13: 9781859841488

Editore: Verso, 1998

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Riassunto:

Viramma tells her fascinating life story with the unsentimentality, humor and dramatic sense of a born storyteller: 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.

Recensione: “... a staggering book.”—Elle

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Titolo: Viramma : Life of an Untouchable
Casa editrice: Verso
Data di pubblicazione: 1998
Legatura: Brossura
Condizione: good