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The Weave of My Life

Author : Urmila Pawar
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231520573
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book The Weave of My Life written by Urmila Pawar and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "My mother used to weave aaydans, the Marathi generic term for all things made from bamboo. I find that her act of weaving and my act of writing are organically linked. The weave is similar. It is the weave of pain, suffering, and agony that links us." Activist and award-winning writer Urmila Pawar recounts three generations of Dalit women who struggled to overcome the burden of their caste. Dalits, or untouchables, make up India's poorest class. 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. 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. As Pawar writes, "the community grew up with a sense of perpetual insecurity, fearing that they could be attacked from all four sides in times of conflict. That is why there has always been a tendency in our people to shrink within ourselves like a tortoise and proceed at a snail's pace." Pawar eventually left Konkan for Mumbai, where she fought for Dalit rights and became a major figure in the Dalit literary movement. Though she writes in Marathi, she has found fame in all of India. In this frank and intimate memoir, Pawar 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.

The Weave of My Life

Author : Urmilā Pavāra
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 023114900X
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book The Weave of My Life written by Urmilā Pavāra and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: That is why there has always been a tendency in our people to shrink within ourselves like a tortoise and proceed at a snail's pace." Pawar eventually left Konkan for Mumbai, where she fought for Dalit rights and became a major figure in the Dalit literary movement. Though she writes in Marathi, she has found fame in all of India.".

Venomous Touch

Author : Ravikkumār
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788185604763
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Venomous Touch written by Ravikkumār and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combative, however partisan, and yet often beguilingly playful, these essays, many translated from the Tamil for the first time, bring Ravikumars concerns to a wider audience. Ranging from the centrality of caste, the logic of communalism, ideas on culture, the politics of the media, education, censorship and literature, just to mention a few of his interests, these essays provide an unsettling impact on the consensuses of democratic India. As he himself talks of in the Preface, for him the personal is political, and questions of power in society, derived from his engagement with Marx, Bakunin, Derrida, Foucault and other philosophers and his wide readings in Tamil literature, permeate his writings. Ravikumar charts the history of discrimination against dalits in terms of land ownership, labour and education, condemns the celebration of the golden jubilee of independence under Hindu authority in 'independent India'. He declares that fundamentalism moves hand in hand with consumer culture. He provocatively critiques the film-maker Lenins much awarded docu-feature, Knock-Out. He writes on some of the most horrendous tales of the slaughter of dalits -- the Melavalavu murder -- where power overturns the rule of law. Throbbing with righteous anger at centuries of oppression and denial against dalits, this collection of essays, as Susie Tharu says in her incisive Foreword, act as 'both poison/venom and remedy'.

Weave a Circle Round

Author : Kari Maaren
Publisher : Tor Books
ISBN 13 : 0765386283
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (653 download)

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Download or read book Weave a Circle Round written by Kari Maaren and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Madeleine L'Engle meets Stranger Things in this debut YA-friendly fantasy adventure about how the unexpected can move in next door

Fiction and the Weave of Life

Author : John Gibson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199299528
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Fiction and the Weave of Life written by John Gibson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-12-06 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophers have struggled to explain how literary fiction can be such an important source of insight into the human condition. John Gibson offers a novel and intriguing account of the relationship between literature and everyday life, and shows how literature can give us an understanding of our world without literally being about our world.

Motherwit

Author : Urmila Pawar
Publisher : Zubaan
ISBN 13 : 9383074450
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Motherwit written by Urmila Pawar and published by Zubaan. This book was released on 2013-07-22 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Dalit, a Buddhist and a feminist: Urmila Pawar’s self-definition as all three identities informs her stories about women who are brave in the face of caste oppression, strong in the face of family pressures, defiant when at the receiving end of insult, and determined when guarding their interests and those of their sisters. Using the classic short story form with its surprise endings to great effect, Pawar brings to life strong and clever women who drive the reader to laughter, anger, tears or despair. Her harsh, sometimes vulgar and hard-hitting language subverts another stereotype — that of the soft-spoken woman writer. Pawar’s protagonists may not always be Dalit, and the mood not always one of anger, but caste is never far from the context and informs the subtext of each story. As critic Eleanor Zelliot notes, there is ‘tucked in every story, a note about a Buddhist vihara or Dr Ambedkar.... All her stories come from the Dalit world, revealing the great variety of Dalit life now.’ Published by Zubaan.

Wear and Tear

Author : Tracy Tynan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501123688
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Wear and Tear written by Tracy Tynan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-07-12 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The memoirs of a celebrity costume designer describe her upbringing in the fashionable celebrity circles of her literary parents, her family's artistic but traumatizing approaches to shopping and how the fashion-savvy perspectives of her early years shaped her relationships and career, "--NoveList.

We Also Made History

Author : Meenakshi Moon
Publisher : Zubaan
ISBN 13 : 9384757365
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (847 download)

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Download or read book We Also Made History written by Meenakshi Moon and published by Zubaan. This book was released on 2004-12-30 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in Marathi in 1989, this contemporary classic details the history of women’s participation in the Dalit movement led by Dr B.R. Ambedkar, for the first time. Focusing on the involvement of women in various Dalit struggles since the early twentieth century, the book goes on to consider the social conditions of Dalit women’s lives, daily religious practices and marital rules, the practice of ritual prostitution, and women’s issues. Drawing on diverse sources including periodicals, records of meetings, and personal correspondence, the latter half of the book is composed of interviews with Dalit women activists from the 1930s. These first-hand accounts from more than forty Dalit women make the book an invaluable resource for students of caste, gender, and politics in India. A rich store of material for historians of the Dalit movement and gender studies in India, We Also Made History remains a fundamental text of the modern women’s movement.

Weaving the Threads of Life

Author : Renaat Devisch
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226143620
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (436 download)

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Download or read book Weaving the Threads of Life written by Renaat Devisch and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1993-11 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the Yaka of Southwestern Zaire, infertility is a tear in the fabric of life, and the Khita fertility ritual is a trusted way of reweaving the damaged strands. In Weaving the Threads of Life Rene Devisch offers an extended analysis of the Khita cult, which leads to an original account of the workings of ritual healing. Drawing on many years among urban and rural Yaka, Devisch analyzes their understanding of existence as a fabric of firmly but delicately interwoven threads of nature, body, and society. The fertility healing ritual calls forth forces, feelings, and meanings that allow women to rejoin themselves to the complex pattern of social and cosmic life. These elaborate rites—whether simulating mortal agony and rebirth, gestation and delivery, or flowering and decay; using music and dance, steambath or massage, dream messages or scarification—are not based on symbols of traditional beliefs. Rather, Devisch shows, the rites themselves generate forces and meaning, creating and shaping the cosmic, physical, and social world of their participants. In contrast to current theoretical methods such as postmodern or symbolical interpretation, Devisch's praxiological approach is unique in also using phenomenological insights into the intent and results of anthropological fieldwork. This innovative work will have ramifications beyond African studies, reaching into the anthropology of medicine and the body, comparative religious history, and women's studies.

Weaving a Life

Author : Mary Meigs Atwater
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780934026772
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Weaving a Life written by Mary Meigs Atwater and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

My Life

Author : Lyn Hejinian
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Life written by Lyn Hejinian and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reprinting of the great Sun & Moon title.

A Fractured Life

Author : Shabnam Samuel
Publisher : Green Place Books
ISBN 13 : 9781732081598
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (815 download)

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Download or read book A Fractured Life written by Shabnam Samuel and published by Green Place Books. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abandoned by her parents as a three-year-old, and ultimately leaving her home country India for a new life in America as a young mother of a three-year-old son, this is not only an immigrant's story, but a poignant and powerful memoir that is at first, one of sadness and continuing adversity, but ultimately one of strength, purpose, and the universal triumph of hope. It is a story of dislocation, disruption, and despair, and brings focus to the silencing of girlhood and womanhood and how with time, love, and support we can work our way out of that silence. Shabnam Samuel was twenty-seven when she moved to the US, carrying with her a troubled marriage, an almost estranged husband, and a three-year-old son. Hoping to create a fresh start from everything that was holding her down, it took Shabnam twenty-five years of trials and tribulations to finally find her voice, her strength, and her place in this world.

The Art of Weaving a Life

Author : Susan Barrett Merrill
Publisher : Schiffer Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780764352645
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (526 download)

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Download or read book The Art of Weaving a Life written by Susan Barrett Merrill and published by Schiffer Publishing. This book was released on 2016 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With more than 120 beautiful color photos, this guide introduces how the simple art of weaving can help each of us--whether we are weavers or not--to build our inner life. The goal is to recognize, receive, and live in harmony with your own deepest truths. Using a system of seven "keyforms" that span cultures, ranging from an amulet to a mask to a belt of power, the growth process is explored in depth. Instructions for seven symbolic keyform projects help beginners to use tapestry weaving techniques, and help seasoned weavers to find new dimensions in their work. To put it in weaving terms, the inner life is like the vertical warp on a loom. The weft of our daily activities weaves through our inner values and beliefs with each moment. The Weaving a Life process has been used successfully by weavers and spinners, psychotherapists, nurses, hospice workers, educators, artists, and youth leaders, as well as by countless individuals who seek a deeper vision for their lives.

The Nature of Things

Author : Tommye Scanlin
Publisher : University of North Georgia
ISBN 13 : 9781940771724
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (717 download)

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Download or read book The Nature of Things written by Tommye Scanlin and published by University of North Georgia. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nature of Things weaves together a life full of happiness and sorrow. In these fourteen collected essays, Tommye McClure Scanlin reflects on her artistic journey and how crafting and life are interwoven, two threads that comprise a larger picture. Readers will find themselves lost in Scanlin's full-color tapestries and comforting writing style as they explore the natural fields and woods of southern Appalachia. A final part of the book gives an overview of tapestry weaving basics with diagrams and descriptions for setting up a simple pipe loom and weaving a small tapestry sampler. Glossary, simple pipe loom illustrations, and a resource list are included for reference.

In the Morning of My Life

Author : Tom Netherton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780842345255
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (452 download)

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Download or read book In the Morning of My Life written by Tom Netherton and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Netherton is probably one of the most normal, clean-cut, wholesome young men you will ever know: why then did he battle loneliness and despair? Why did a thread of restless discontent weave itself through the fabric of his life? Questions nagged at him through his early school days and on into high school life, where he began to discover his musical talent.

The Weave of My Life

Author : Elsa Rosenvasser Feher
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book The Weave of My Life written by Elsa Rosenvasser Feher and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-11-12 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When her husband of 60 years died, Elsa Rosenvasser Feher was brought to a standstill and found herself re-examining the life she had lived. The result is this memoir, The Weave of My Life, in which she explores her identity: who she is, where she came from. Using this search to set out the under-pinnings (the warp) of her life, she then tells stories (the weft). In this manner she weaves her life anew, in the voice of the present and of the past, borrowing from her 75 years of diary entries and interspersing writings done over the years. The author is a scientist and an educator, a mountaineer and a music buff, and a lover of language and words.

Weaving My Way Through Life

Author : Natalie Pierce
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 1481759124
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (817 download)

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Download or read book Weaving My Way Through Life written by Natalie Pierce and published by Author House. This book was released on 2013-06-07 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of my life and what I needed to do to survive. My daydreams were my escape from life when I was a child. When I became an adult I learned there was always something I could do to make things better like getting a job for more money. If a project doesnt work one way you can weave around and go another way. I feel like Ive been weaving in and out all of my life. The most important thing is to never give up. A person can do anything if they never give up. That is the message that I hope you receive from my book.