<p>What a life! She didn’t like being here, and she didn’t like going there.\nMehar dreams of freedom and a life with her children. Asiya dreams of her daughter’s happiness. Sajida dreams of becoming a doctor. Subaida dreams of the day when her family will become free of woes. Parveen dreams of a little independence, a little space for herself in the world. Mothers, daughters, aunts, sisters, neighbours…\nIn this tiny Muslim village in Tamil Nadu, the lives of these women are sustained by the faith they have in themselves, in each other, and the everyday compromises they make. Salma’s storytelling—crystalline in its simplicity, patient in its unravelling—enters this interior world of women, held together by love, demarcated by religion, comforted by the courage in dreaming of better futures.\nA beautiful novel by writer and activist Salma, translated from Tamil by Meena Kandasamy.</p>

Women Dreaming

Literature & Fiction

Salma

Contemporary

Tilted Axis Press

In this book the Indian poet Salma and filmmaker Kim Longinotto come together to portray Salma's extraordinary life and the challenges of capturing it in a documentary film.When Salma, a young Muslim girl growing up in a South Indian village, was 13 years old, her family shut her away for eight years, forbidding her to study and forcing her into marriage. After her wedding her husband insisted she stay indoors. Salma was unable to venture outside for nearly two and a half decades. During that time, words became her salvation. She began covertly composing poems on scraps of paper, and, through an intricate system, smuggled them to the outside world.The poems, many of which are included here, describe the hardships Salma and countless women like her suffer in their secluded lives. Eventually they reached a local publisher who printed them. Against all odds, and in a direct challenge to the stultifying traditions of her village, Salma has gone on to become a renowned Tamil poet and influential human rights activist.

Salma: Filming a Poet in Her Village

Kim Longinotto

OR Books

Animal lecteur - Tome 3 - On peut pas tout lire !

Comics & Graphic Novels

Manga

DUPUIS

Manaamiyankal (Tamil Edition)

Kalachuvadu Pathipagam

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