Bama's Karukku: Dalit autobiography as testimonio

dc.contributor.author	Nayar, Pramod K.
dc.date.accessioned	2022-03-27T01:51:22Z
dc.date.available	2022-03-27T01:51:22Z
dc.date.issued	2006-12-01
dc.description.abstract	This essay argues that Dalit autobiographies must be treated as testimonio, atrocity narratives that document trauma and strategies of survival. Using Bama's Karukku as a case-study, it explores the shift between the generic conventions of individual life-writing and collective biography in this text. It analyses the strategy of witnessing in Bama's narrative, arguing that she functions as a witness to a community's suffering, and calls upon readers to undertake "rhetorical listening" as secondary witnesses. This act of recording trauma and witnessing, the essay proposes, is one of subaltern agency. Copyright © 2006 SAGE Publications.
dc.identifier.citation	Journal of Commonwealth Literature. v.41(2)
dc.identifier.issn	00219894
dc.identifier.uri	10.1177/0021989406065773
dc.identifier.uri	http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0021989406065773
dc.identifier.uri	https://dspace.uohyd.ac.in/handle/1/4172
dc.subject	Bama
dc.subject	Dalit writing
dc.subject	Subaltern
dc.subject	Testimonio
dc.subject	Trauma
dc.subject	Witnessing
dc.title	Bama's Karukku: Dalit autobiography as testimonio
dc.type	Journal. Review
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