Tamil Nadu, 1968. Village landlords rule over a feudal system that forces peasants to break their backs in the fields or suffer beatings as punishment. In the misery of their daily lives it is little wonder that the Communist Party begins to gain traction, a small spark of defiance spreading from villager to villager. As communities across the region begin to take a stand against the landlords, the landlords vow to break them; Party organizers suffer grisly deaths and the flow of food into the market-places dries up. But it only serves to make the villagers' resistance burn more fiercely. Finally, the landlords descend on one village to set an example to the others...

The Gypsy Goddess

Literature & Fiction

Meena Kandasamy

Genre Fiction

ATLANTIC BOOKS *

Literary

When I Hit You

The Book of Desire

Galley Beggar Press

Ms Militancy

Navayana Publishers

Meena Kandasamy’s full-blooded and highly experimental poems challenge the dominant mode in contemporary Indian poetry in status-quoist, depoliticised, neatly sterilised. These caustic poems with their black humour, sharp sarcasm, tart repartees, semantic puns and semiotic plays irritate, shock and sting the readers until they are provoked into rethinking the ‘time-honoured’ traditions and entrenched hierarchies at work in contemporary society.The poet stands myths and legends on their head to expose their regressive core. She uses words, images and metaphors as tools of subversion, asserting, in the process, her caste, gender and regional identities while also transcending them through the shared spaces of her socioaesthetic practice. She de-romanticises the world and de-mythifies religious and literary traditions by re-appropriating the hegemonic language in a heretical gesture of Promethean love for the dispossessed. The poet interrogates the tenets of a solipsistic modernism to create a counterpoetic community speech brimming with emancipatory energy.

Navayana

Ayyankali : A Dalit Leader Of Organic Protest

M. Nisar

SAHITHI BOOKS

Tamil nadu, 1968 village landlords rule over a feudal system that forces peasants to break their backs in the fields or suffer beatings as punishment in the misery of their daily lives it is little wonder that the communist party begins to gain traction, a small spark of defiance spreading from villager to villager as communities across the region begin to take a stand against the landlords, the landlords vow to break them, party organizers suffer grisly deaths and the flow of food into the marketplaces dries up but it only serves to make the villagers resistance burn more fiercely finally, the landlords descend on one village to set an example to the others

4th Harper

The Gypsy Goddess [Paperback]

Contemporary

Fourth Estate

Tomorrow Someone Will Arrest You

Juggernaut

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