ZITKALA -SA Vs BAMA (XII-Eng.VIMP) CBSE

ZITKALA -SA Vs BAMA

Ch-8 The Memories Of Childhood

           Class-  XII Eng.

                         CBSE 

ZITKALA -SA (Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, )

Zitkala-Sa was a victim of racial prejudice.Zitkala-Sa was a native American who was sent to the Carlisle Indian school at a young age. She faced humiliation, discrimination and exploitation at school. She was forced to get her hair shingled against which she protested to the best of her capacity but finally had to surrender.She had a school friend named Judewin who knew a few words of English .She noticed the discrimination against Native American culture and women. The cutting of her long hair was a symbolic of subjection to the rulers.The shingled hair was that only unskilled warriors who were captured had their hair shingled by the enemy. Among their people,

BAMA(Faustina Mary Fatima Rani )

 Bama was a Dalit writer who was born in 1958 and raised in Tamil Nadu, India.

Bama is the pen-name of a Tamil Dalit woman from a Roman Catholic family. 

She has given the real picture of her childhood experiences of discrimination, untouchability and injustice of her community.

She has published three main works: an autobiography, 'Karukku', 1992; a novel, 'Sangati', 1994; and a collection of short stories, 'Kisumbukkaaran', 1996. The following excerpt has been taken from 'Karukku'.Childhood of Bama is about the hardships and atrocities faced by the marginalized section of her society. 

Bama was exposed to caste discrimination and untouchability.

Bama was an innocent child who was spending her childhood in a village. She used to walk back home When school was over, she had to do walking to reach home. . The behaviour of the landlord towards the elderly man left her anger. 

Bama became sad on listening how the upper caste people behaved towards low caste persons like them. She felt provoked and angry. She wanted to touch those vadais herself.

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