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Karukku is an autobiography that chronicles Bama’s life, from her childhood to her early adult life as a nun, and beyond. The book was originally written by her in Tamil in and translated into the English version that I read by Lakshmi Holmstrom in Karukku is one of the first autobiographies of a Dalit woman written in Tamil.
Karukku
Author: Bama
Translator: Lakshmi Holmstrom
Publisher: Oxford University Press;
Genre: Non-fiction
It was in that Bama left the convent that she had been a member of for seven years.
As she writes, “That book was written as a means of healing my inward wounds; I had no other motive.” We see Bama, standing at this moment in her life, trying to make sense of her many identities; as a Dalit, as a Christian, as a woman.
Unlike most autobiographies, Bama’s narrative is not linear.
She does not describe events only in terms of the impact they had on her later life, but writes of the experiences she had as moments of oppression tha