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Paperback. A politically and ideologically-charged novel, Sangati creates a Dalit feminist perspective and explores the impact of discrimination - compounded, above all, by poverty - suffered by Dalit women. Marked by rich ethnographic detail, the novel is a significant contribution to Dalit writing in India. Translator(s): Holmstrom, Lakshmi. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: DSK; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 216 x 10. Weight in Grams: 344.
Sangati is a startling insight into the lives of Dalit women who face the double disadvantage of caste and gender discrimination. Written in a colloquial style, the original Tamil version overturns the decorum and aesthetics of upper-caste, upper-class Tamil literature and culture and, in turn, projects a positive cultural identity for Dalits in general and for Dalit women in particular. Sangati flouts received notions about what a novel should be and has no plot in the normal sense. It relates the mindscape of a Dalit woman who steps out of her small town community, only to enter a caste-ridden ... Read more
Sangati is a startling insight into the lives of Dalit women who face the double disadvantage of caste and gender discrimination. Written in a colloquial style, the original Tamil version overturns the decorum and aesthetics of upper-caste, upper-class Tamil literature and culture and, in turn, projects a positive cultural identity for Dalits in general and for Dalit women in particular. Sangati flouts received notions about what a novel should be and has no plot in the normal sense. It relates the mindscape of a Dalit woman who steps out of her small town community, only to enter a caste-ridden ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
OUP India India
Number of pages
152
Condition
New
Number of Pages
152
Place of Publication
New Delhi, India
ISBN
9780195698435
SKU
V9780195698435
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Ref
99-15
About Bama
Bama is one of the first Dalit women writers to be widely recognized and translated. Her writings include an autobiography, Karukku (1992), a novel, Sangati (1994; translated into English by Lakshmi Holmström, OUP 2005), and a collection of short stories, Kisumbukaaran (1996). Lakshmi Holmström has translated Tamil novels and short stories by many modern writers. She has been awarded ... Read more
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