Black coffee in a cococnut shell : caste as lived experience / edited by Perumal Murugan; translated by C.S. Lakshmi.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: Tamil Publication details: New Delhi : Yoda Press, 2023.Description: xix, 229 pISBN:- 9789392099830
- 23 305.854
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OPJGU Sonepat- Campus | General Books | Main Library | 305.854 BL- (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 150790 |
"Caste, as it is experienced in everyday life, is the pièce de résistance of this book. Thirty-two voices narrate how from childhood to adulthood, caste intruded upon their lives—food, clothes, games, gait, love, marriage and every aspect of one’s existence including death. Like the editor Perumal Murugan says, caste is like god, it is omnipresent. The contributors write about the myriad ways in which they have experienced caste. It may be in the form of forgoing certain kinds of food, or eating food at secluded corners of a household, or drinking tea out of a crushed plastic cup, or drinking black coffee in a coconut shell or water poured from above into a cupped hand. Such experiences may also take the form of forbidden streets, friends disapproved of and love denied. And when one leaves behind the fear of caste while living one’s life, there is still death to deal with."--
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