Biography & True Stories
The Story of Naadar Women (Nāṭār peṇkaḷiṉ katai)
The lives of Naadar women of five generations
by Nageswari Annamalai
Description
The book spans the lives of Naadar women of five generations, portraying the injustice women face in the context of marriage. The women are drawn from a caste low in the hierarchy, but doing better economically, in a small industrial town in southern India. The book exhibits a kind of writing that combines ethnography and fiction, personal experience and social insights. It has the stories of the lives of twenty-five women whose lives spread over a century; each one of the stories is about a woman’s anguish and powerlessness, but each is different in its own way. The description of their stories is also a window into the way of life and the customs of this caste and the changes in the course of modern history. The book is filled with the author’s own anguish about the women’s struggles and her wit about society’s norms.
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Author Biography
Nageswari Annamalai
has authored eight non-fiction books in Tamil; the thread connecting all of them is injustice in history, politics, and society. The author is critically acclaimed for her narrative style, which makes the readers feel they are in conversation with the author. Her language is rich and is lucid, and it holds the attention of the reader. The author has also received wide praise as a translator of well-known writer R.K. Narayan’s Malgudi Days a collection of short stories, from English to Tamil. She has travelled widely around the world; she holds a doctorate degree in Sociology.
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Her language is rich and is lucid, and it holds the attention of the reader.
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2016
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View all titlesBibliographic Information
- Publisher Adaiyaalam
- ISBN/Identifier 9788177202502
- Publication Country or regionIndia
- FormatPaperback
- Primary Price 270 INR
- Pages352
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleNāṭār peṇkaḷiṉ katai (நாட்டார் பெண்களின் கதை)
- Original Language AuthorsTamil
- Edition2016
- Copyright Year2016
- Page size140*215 mm
- Reference CodeBiography
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