Poems of Chandalini : poems by a Bangla dalit womanist Kalyani Thakur Charal / translated by Zinia Mitra & Jaydeep Sarangi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ṭhākura, Kalyāṇī, author.

Contributor:

Mitra, Zinia, translator.

Sarangi, Jaydeep, 1973- translator.

Birutjatio Sahitya Sammiloni (Bolpur, India), publisher.

Language:

Bengali

English

Subjects (All):

Dalit women--Poetry.

Dalit women.

Caste-based discrimination--Poetry.

Caste-based discrimination.

Genre:

Bengali poetry -- Translations into English.

Physical Description:

88 pages : 1 illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Bolpur : Birutjatio Sahitya Sammiloni, December, 2023.

Summary:

"Chandalini’s Poems are poems woven around intensely felt private love and loss, if the poems depict nature they inevitably lead to private memories of ruefulness. The poems depict society at large as a machinery of caste oppression articulated from a personal perspective which is unmistakably the Dalit existence of Kalyani Thakur Charal. The volume is replete with images of blacksmiths, farmers, weavers, poverty, misfortune, sickness, injuries— there lingers an overpowering aroma of boiled paddy around a cow-dung smeared courtyard. Kalyani Thakur’s poetry is a genuinely bitter and scathy critique of cultural intolerance, opportunism and oppressive conditions of Dalit women. There is always a tone of high justice in her armoury." --Publisher's description.

Notes:

Translated from Bengali.

ISBN:

9789391736965

9391736963

OCLC:

1428107128