Kanneerum Kinaavum
My Tears, My Dreams
Price: 550.00 INR
ISBN:
9780198089629
Publication date:
24/01/2013
Hardback
152 pages
216.0x140.0mm
Price: 550.00 INR
ISBN:
9780198089629
Publication date:
24/01/2013
Hardback
152 pages
216.0x140.0mm
V.T. Bhattathiripad
Suitable for: General readers as well as students and teachers of Indian literature in translation, comparative literature, translation studies, and cultural studies
Rights: World Rights
V.T. Bhattathiripad
Description
Late V.T. Bhattathiripad was one of the leading social reformers of modern Kerala. My Tears, My Dreams is his celebrated autobiography that maps his transformation from a young boy schooled in his ancestral calling of priesthood to a radical writer and activist. It is both the story of a young Namboodiri man and that of a community, told in a style that is unique in Malayalam. The narrative is in the form of interconnected essays that invoke the tragic plight of the majority of Brahmin households in Kerala, mired in convention and ignorance. They locate V.T. Bhattathiripad’s own self-awakening in the collective struggle of committed progressive young men and women. Though it is an autobiographical narrative, the focus is on the society as a whole and on the Namboodiri community in particular. Besides the main text, the book includes a comprehensive Introduction, an Epilogue, an in-depth interview that three historians conducted with the author in his last year, and rare photographs related to the author’s life and times.
V.T. Bhattathiripad
V.T. Bhattathiripad
Description
Late V.T. Bhattathiripad was one of the leading social reformers of modern Kerala. My Tears, My Dreams is his celebrated autobiography that maps his transformation from a young boy schooled in his ancestral calling of priesthood to a radical writer and activist. It is both the story of a young Namboodiri man and that of a community, told in a style that is unique in Malayalam. The narrative is in the form of interconnected essays that invoke the tragic plight of the majority of Brahmin households in Kerala, mired in convention and ignorance. They locate V.T. Bhattathiripad’s own self-awakening in the collective struggle of committed progressive young men and women. Though it is an autobiographical narrative, the focus is on the society as a whole and on the Namboodiri community in particular. Besides the main text, the book includes a comprehensive Introduction, an Epilogue, an in-depth interview that three historians conducted with the author in his last year, and rare photographs related to the author’s life and times.
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