Karukku

Karukku broke barriers of tradition in more ways than one. The first autobiography by a Dalit woman writer and a classic of subaltern writing, it is a bold and poignant tale of life outside mainstream Indian thought and function.

List of contents

• Ten Years Later


• Translator's Note to the Second Edition


• Introduction


• Author's Preface to the First Edition


• Editor's Note to the First Edition


• Postcript


• Author's Afterword to the First Edition


• Glossary


• About the Author and the Translator

About the author

Bama is the most celebrated contemporary Dalit woman writer. She has been in the forefront of caste literature activism and has given Dalit aesthetics tremendous visibility on the literary campus of India. Her works have been translated into English, German, French, Telugu, and Malayalam.

Lakshmi Holmström is one of the most successful Indian translators. She has received the Crossword Award for translation twice (2001 and 2007) and the Iyal Award from the Tamil Literary Garden, Canada (2008). She is one of the Founder Trustees of the South Asian Diaspora Literature and Arts Archive.

Summary

Karukku broke barriers of tradition in more ways than one. The first autobiography by a Dalit woman writer and a classic of subaltern writing, it is a bold and poignant tale of life outside mainstream Indian thought and function.

Product details

• Authors: Bama Faustina, Lakshmi Holmstrom
• Assisted by: Mini Krishnan (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.06.2014
• EAN: 9780199450411
• ISBN: 978-0-19-945041-1
• No. of pages: 170
• Dimensions: 143 mm x 218 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 151 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies