Bama : Writer as Activist (Paperback)

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?c?tik 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