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The trauma of caste : a dalit feminist meditation on survivorship, healing, and abolition / Thenmozhi Soundararajan ; foreword by Tarana Burke ; afterword by Dr. Cornel West.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Soundararajan, Thenmozhi, author.
- Burke, Tarana, author of foreword.
- West, Cornel, author of afterword.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Caste--India.
- Caste.
- Dalit women--India--Social conditions.
- Dalit women.
- Feminist theory--India.
- Feminist theory.
- Intersectionality (Sociology)--India.
- Intersectionality (Sociology).
- Marginality, Social--India.
- Marginality, Social.
- Dalit women--Social conditions.
- India.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 270 pages : illustrations, forms ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, California : North Atlantic Books, [2022]
- Summary:
- "Soundararajan ties discrimination toward the Dalit in South Asia and America to the experiences of Black, Indigenous, Latinx, femme, and Queer communities, examining caste from a feminist, abolitionist, and Dalit Buddhist perspective. This book includes embodiment exercises, reflections, and meditations to help readers explore their own relationship to caste and marginalization"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: The wound as teacher
- Meditation 1 : the existence of caste
- Meditation II : the source of caste
- Meditation III : from wounds to liberation
- Meditation IV : the end of caste
- Conclusion: Love in a time of genocide.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-258) and index.
- Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature - Adult Non-Fiction, Honor, 2023-2024
- Other Format:
- Online version: Soundararajan, Thenmozhi. Trauma of caste
- ISBN:
- 9781623177652
- 1623177650
- OCLC:
- 1298936321
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