Viramma
Life of an Untouchable
Valutazione del libro
Parametri
- 320pagine
- 12 ore di lettura
Maggiori informazioni sul libro
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.
Acquisto del libro
Viramma, Viramma, Jean-Luc Racine, Will Hobson, John L. Varriano, Josiane Racine
- Lingua
- Pubblicato
- 1997
- Rilegatura
- (In brossura)
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- Titolo
- Viramma
- Sottotitolo
- Life of an Untouchable
- Lingua
- Inglese
- Editore
- Verso Books
- Pubblicato
- 1997
- Formato
- In brossura
- Pagine
- 320
- ISBN10
- 1859841481
- ISBN13
- 9781859841488
- Serie
- Categoria
- Tag
- Tema stórico, Commercio, Avventura, Temi psicologici, Tematica filosofica, Amore, Famiglia, Donne, Spiritualità e Religione, Temi cristiani, Amicizia, Relazioni, Educazione, istruzione, Scuola, Morte, Società, Cultura e Società, Femminismo, Matrimonio, Cultura, Indie, Denaro, Chiesa, Genere, Sposalizi, Globalizzazione, Infedeltà, Comunità, Invecchiamento, Strategia, Corpo, Spiagge, Tristezza, Olandese, Condizioni Sociali, Classi sociali, Economia comportamentale
- Valutazione
- 3,45 su 5
- Descrizione
- 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.