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Viramma, Life of an Untouchable
Viramma
Josiane Racine
Jean-Luc Racine
出版
Verso
, 1997
主題
Biography & Autobiography / General
Biography & Autobiography / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / Asian & Asian American
Biography & Autobiography / Historical
Biography & Autobiography / Women
Business & Economics / Economic Conditions
History / Asia / South / General
Social Science / Minority Studies
Social Science / Sociology / General
Social Science / Women's Studies
ISBN
1859848176
9781859848173
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=8qHS392kglMC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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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.