In this frank and intimate memoir, she not only shares her tireless effort to surmount hideous personal tragedy but also conveys the excitement of an awakening consciousness during a time of profound political and social change. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Weave of My Life: A Dalit Woman's Memoirs. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Though she writes in Marathi, Pawar has found fame in all of India. The Weave of My Life: A Dalit Woman's Memoirs - Kindle edition by Pawar, Urmila, Sonalkar, Wandana, Pandit, Maya. When Helene Cixous asserts that woman must write her body, the subaltern woman in her new self defined cultural role turns her body into a language. She eventually left Konkan for Mumbai, where she fought for Dalit rights and became a major figure in the Dalit literary movement. Here, the woman is trying to redefine her ‘self’ in terms of her own cultural roles, independent of the role assigned to her by the male world. Pawar grew up on the rugged Konkan coast, near Mumbai, where the Mahar Dalits were housed in the center of the village so the upper castes could summon them at any time. Forbidden from performing anything but the most undesirable and unsanitary duties, for years Dalits were believed to be racially inferior and polluted by nature and were therefore forced to live in isolated communities. Dalits, or untouchables, make up India's poorest class. The book was first published in Marathi in 1997, and later translated into English by Maya Pandit and published as The Weave of My.
Activist and award-winning writer Urmila Pawar recounts three generations of Dalit women who struggled to overcome the burden of their caste.
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