Bama

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. âA Dalit Woman Writer Writes Backâ 25. âLetters are always Life-giving Angelsâ SECTION V: In the Public Gaze: Bama in Criticism Critical Reading of Karukku 26. Space and Caste: Mapping the Physiognomy of Bamaâs Karukku 27. Karukku and Beyond: Bamaâs Literary Journey 28. Can a cÄtik kua¹­i ever become a tia¹aik kua¹­i 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 Bamaâs Manusi Bama Making History 32. A Publisherâs âBamaâ Faustina 33. The Deep Vernacular History of Casteless and Anti-Caste Indians Bama, the Narrator 34. Bama, the Nature Teacher 35. Bamaâs Stylising of Ballad Narrative Appraisals of Bama by Her Teacher and Brother 36. Bama as I Know Her 37. The Way I Think about Bamaâs Writings SECTION VI: Bamaâs Evolving Life a. A bio-Chronology b. Citations from Awards c. Bibliography