Bama
Writer as Activist
1st Edition
Published on 27. October 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-1-032-78571-4 (ISBN)
Description
Bama is a Tamil Dalit feminist writer and novelist. Her autobiographical novel Karukku, which chronicles the joys and sorrows experienced by Dalit Christians in Tamil Nadu, catapulted her to fame. As a prolific writer, she has experimented with all kinds of genres, such as novels, short stories, poems, autobiographical writing, children's literature, and discursive essays. This book presents a dedicated study of Bama's work as a writer and activist and situates her in the context of Dalit literature in general and Tamil Dalit literature in particular. It recognises Bama as writer of great relevance especially in bringing to the fore the problematics of Dalit issues and their possible modes of aesthetic articulation through a new Dalit language.
Part of the Writer in Context series, this book will be useful for scholars and researchers of Indian literature, Dalit Literature, Dalit Studies, Tamil literature, English literature, comparative literature, postcolonial studies, cultural studies, Green studies. global south studies and translation studies.
Part of the Writer in Context series, this book will be useful for scholars and researchers of Indian literature, Dalit Literature, Dalit Studies, Tamil literature, English literature, comparative literature, postcolonial studies, cultural studies, Green studies. global south studies and translation studies.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Postgraduate
Illustrations
27 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder, 27 s/w Abbildungen
27 Halftones, black and white; 27 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
488 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-032-78571-4 (9781032785714)
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Persons
Raj Kumar is Professor in the Department of English, Delhi University. His book, Dalit Personal Narratives: Reading Caste, Nation and Identity has been published by Orient BlackSwan, New Delhi in 2010. His English translation of Akhila Naik's Bheda, the first Odia Dalit novel is published in 2017. His book Dalit Literature and Criticism was published in 2019.
S. Armstrong is Professor and Head, Centre for Endangered Languages, University of Madras, Chennai. He is a former Fulbright and Shastri Indo-Canadian Fellow and authored Voice of the Voiceless (2013) and edited three books. He is currently working on Blue Humanities and Literatures.
S. Armstrong is Professor and Head, Centre for Endangered Languages, University of Madras, Chennai. He is a former Fulbright and Shastri Indo-Canadian Fellow and authored Voice of the Voiceless (2013) and edited three books. He is currently working on Blue Humanities and Literatures.
Content
Introduction SECTION I: Documenting Many Dalit Worlds: Fiction by Bama Excerpts from novels 1. Karukku 2. Sangati 3. Vanmam 4. Manusi 5.Viruchanglagum Vithaigal Selected Short Stories 6. Pongal 7. Dhavani 8. Ponnuthayi 9. Rapscallion Selected Short Stories for Children 10. The Ichi Tree Monkey 11. Identity 12. The Yellow Butterfly 13. Durga and I SECTION II: Poems by Bama 14. Born to Burn 15. Death 16. Hope beyond Hope 17. Maternal Fragrance 18. Fiery Frolics 19 Yearning SECTION III: Voices of Dissent and Protest: Critical Essays of Bama 20. Writing as Healing 21 Dalits as Artisans of a New Humanity 22. Life, as though He Knew it was Historic 23. Through Solitude to Solicitude SECTION IV: Bama in Interviews 24. "A Dalit Woman Writer Writes Back" 25. "Letters are always Life-giving Angels" SECTION V: In the Public Gaze: Bama in Criticism Critical Reading of Karukku 26. Space and Caste: Mapping the Physiognomy of Bama's Karukku 27. Karukku and Beyond: Bama's Literary Journey 28. Can a catik ku?i ever become a ti?aik ku?i again? A Reading of Karukku Intersectionalities of Caste, Class and Gender 29. Dialogics of the Oppressed: A Study of Caste, Gender, Textuality, and Corporeality in Sangati 30. The Sociological Self as Palimpsest: Caste, Class, Religion and Gender in the Select Writings of Bama 31. Negotiating Spatial Autonomy and Personal Agency: A Reading of Bama's Manusi Bama Making History 32. A Publisher's "Bama" Faustina 33. The Deep Vernacular History of Casteless and Anti-Caste Indians Bama, the Narrator 34. Bama, the Nature Teacher 35. Bama's Stylising of Ballad Narrative Appraisals of Bama by Her Teacher and Brother 36. Bama as I Know Her 37. The Way I Think about Bama's Writings SECTION VI: Bama's Evolving Life a. A bio-Chronology b. Citations from Awards c. Bibliography