TY  - GEN
AU  - Kamble, Baby
TI  - The prisons we broke
SN  - 9789352873708
U1  - 305.568095479 
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Hyderabad
PB  - Orient Blackswan Pvt. Ltd.
KW  - Women
KW  - India--Maharashtra
KW  - Dalits
N2  - Description

Writing on the lives of the Mahars of Maharashtra, Baby Kamble reclaims memory to locate the Mahar society before it was impacted by Babasaheb Ambedkar, and tells a consequent tale of redemption wrought by a fiery brand of social and self-awareness. The Prisons We Broke provides a graphic insight into the oppressive, caste and patriarchal tenets of the Indian society, but nowhere does the writing descend to self-pity. With verve and colour the narrative brings to life, among other things, the festivals, rituals, superstitions, snot-nosed children, hard lives and hardy women of the Mahar community. The original Marathi work, Jina Amucha (serialized in 1982 and published as a book in 1986) re-defined autobiographical writing in Marathi in terms of form and narrative strategies adopted, and the selfhood and subjectivities that were articulated
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