The Stepchild: Angaliyat - Couverture rigide

Macwan, Joseph

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0195666240 ISBN 13 : 9780195666243

Editeur : OUP India, 2004

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Joseph Macwan (1935-2010) lived and taught in Anand, Gujarat. He told the stories of Dalit lives in the region as vivid narratives told in the Charotari dialect. Angaliyat is his most acclaimed novel, and Joseph Macwan is Gujarat's well-known Dalit writer. He won several state and national awards for literature. Rita Kothari is a Professor of Humanities at the Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar. She is well known for her translations, as well as her academic work on translation and language politics in Sindh and Gujarat.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Angaliyat, a child whose mother leads him by the hand to his stepfather's house, is metaphorically the social position of the Vankers, a Dalit community. The first Dalit novel set in rural Gujarat of the 1930s draws attention to Dalit aesthetics and political ideology.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: OUP India
• Date d'édition: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0195666240
• ISBN 13: 9780195666243
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 288