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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Verso Books
Publication date
December 1, 1997
Pages
312
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9781859848173
ISBN-10
1859848176
Dimensions
1.25 by 6.50 by 9.75 in.
Weight
1.55 lbs.
Availability§
Out of Print
Published in
Great Britain
Original list price
$65.00
§As reported by publisher
Summaries and Reviews
Summary
An Indian woman viewed as an untouchable in her village tells her life story
(view table of contents)Amazon.com description: Product Description: âI walked forward with my head lowered, my heart heavy and my tears readyu to fall. But I was all alone in feeling like this: around me it was a holiday, the streets were swept and strewn with coconut leaves, the sky was blue and cloudless ... As if I was in a trance, I felt hands putting the tali around my neck and tying three knots in the string. Without thinking I prostrated myself before the burning camphor. We were married.â Viramma recalls her marriage at the age of 11.
Virrama tells her fascinating life story with the unsentimentality, humour and dramatic sense of a born storyteller: her care free childhood; her marriage before puberty; giving birth to twelve children âvery gently, like stroking a roseâ; adult life as an agricultural worker âcondemned to bake in the sunâ; tales of gods and malign forces, like Irsi Katteri âthe foetus-eaterâ, who cast their shadows 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 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.
Virrama tells her fascinating life story with the unsentimentality, humour and dramatic sense of a born storyteller: her care free childhood; her marriage before puberty; giving birth to twelve children âvery gently, like stroking a roseâ; adult life as an agricultural worker âcondemned to bake in the sunâ; tales of gods and malign forces, like Irsi Katteri âthe foetus-eaterâ, who cast their shadows 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 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.
Editions
Hardcover
The price comparison is for this edition
With Viramma Josiane Racine |
from Verso Books (December 1, 1997)
9781859848173 | details & prices | 312 pages | 6.50 × 9.75 × 1.25 in. | 1.55 lbs | List price $65.00
About: An Indian woman viewed as an untouchable in her village tells her life story
About: An Indian woman viewed as an untouchable in her village tells her life story
Paperback
With Will Hobson (other contributor) |
from Verso Books (December 1, 1997)
9781859841488 | details & prices | 312 pages | 6.25 × 9.50 × 1.00 in. | 1.25 lbs | List price $29.95
About: An Indian woman viewed as an untouchable in her village tells her life story
About: An Indian woman viewed as an untouchable in her village tells her life story
With Will Hobson (other contributor) |
from UNESCO (May 1, 1997)
9789231031458 | details & prices | 312 pages | List price $22.50
About: An Indian woman viewed as an untouchable in her village tells her life story
About: An Indian woman viewed as an untouchable in her village tells her life story
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