Bama’s Karukku: Dalit Autobiography as Testimonio
Bama’s Karukku: Dalit Autobiography as Testimonio
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巴马的卡鲁库：贱民自传作为见证
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2006
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P. Nayar
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这篇文章认为，达利特自传必须被视为证词，记录创伤和生存策略的暴行叙述。以奥巴马的《Karukku》为例，探讨了这篇文章中个人生活写作和集体传记的一般惯例之间的转变。它分析了奥巴马叙事中的见证策略，认为她是一个社区苦难的见证者，并呼吁读者作为次要见证者进行“修辞性倾听”。这篇文章提出，这种记录创伤和见证的行为是一种次等代理。
This essay argues that Dalit autobiographies must be treated as testimonio, atrocity narratives that document trauma and strategies of survival. Using Bama’s Karukku as a case-study, it explores the shift between the generic conventions of individual life-writing and collective biography in this text. It analyses the strategy of witnessing in Bama’s narrative, arguing that she functions as a witness to a community’s suffering, and calls upon readers to undertake “rhetorical listening” as secondary witnesses. This act of recording trauma and witnessing, the essay proposes, is one of subaltern agency.