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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.
Acquisto del libro
Viramma, Will Hobson, John L. Varriano, Viramma, Josiane Racine, Jean-Luc Racine
- Lingua
- Pubblicato
- 1997
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- Titolo
- Viramma
- Sottotitolo
- Life of an Untouchable
- Lingua
- Inglese
- Editore
- Verso
- Pubblicato
- 1997
- Formato
- In brossura
- Pagine
- 320
- ISBN10
- 1859841481
- ISBN13
- 9781859841488
- Serie
- Tag
- Saggistica, Scienze sociali, Tema stórico, Storie vere, Commercio, Business & Management, Biografie, Auto-aiuto, Avventura, Temi psicologici, Tematica filosofica, Amore, Famiglia, Donne, Spiritualità e Religione, Temi cristiani, Autobiografie e memorie, Amicizia, Economia, Relazioni, Biografie, Sociologia, Scuola, Educazione, istruzione, Morte, Società, Cultura e Società, Femminismo, Antropologia, Matrimonio, Indie, Cultura, Denaro, Chiesa, Genere, Sposalizi, Infedeltà, Globalizzazione, Comunità, Invecchiamento, Strategia, Spiagge, Corpo, 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.