The weave of my life : a dalit woman's memoirs
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The weave of my life : a dalit woman's memoirs
Stree, 2008
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Aaydan
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Translation from Marathi original text
Originally published: Mumbai : Granthali, 2003
Includes bibliographical references (p. 345)
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Translated for the first time into English, this writer's autobiographical work, Ayadan [Baskets] made publishing history right from its moment of publication in 2004. Outspoken, confronting the issue of domestic conflicts squarely, she talks of what it is like to be an educated Dalit (untouchable) woman. Pawar engages with issues of identity and selfhood, caste/class consciousness, changing expressions of patriarchy and Dalit women's participation in emancipatory struggles and the dead ends reached in Dalit politics where meaningful liberation is not fought for but the seizure of political power through opportunism ( the Dalit woman politician Mayawati was elected chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, with a population over 130 million with the help of the upper castes). Pawars memoirs reveals a complexly constructed divided self as well as the troubled and complex interface between feminist and Dalit movements. As a young girl brought up by her mother, a single parent, her perception of the residual and newly emergent forms of patriarchy, religion, familial relationships, violence and liberation is intense and acute.
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