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Viramma Life of an Untouchable
by [Racine, Jean-Luc, Racine, Josiane, Varriano, John L.]
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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.
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- Verso Brand
- Feb 17, 1998 Pub Date:
- 9781859841488 ISBN-13:
- 1859841481 ISBN-10:
- 320.0 pages Paperback
- English Language
- 8.98 in * 0.7 in * 5.98 in Dimensions:
- 1 lb Weight:
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