TY  - BOOK
ED  - Kumar, Raj
ED  - Armstrong, S.
TI  - Bama: writer as activist
SN  - 9781032962702
PY  - 2025///
CY  - London and New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Asian Studies
KW  - Literature
KW  - Post-Colonial Studies
N2  - 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
ER  -