It also tries to tie gender relations to colonialism.
I mean, she's paralleling two versions of oppression, both caused by the oppressed's internalization of the oppressor's values - the same oppressor, too. Kind of.
"All the worlds are in the sky
and some of them keep me from falling."
-- Charlie Mystery, age 5
and some of them keep me from falling."
-- Charlie Mystery, age 5
The Truth About Me: A Hijra Life Story by A. Revathi
- 17/11/2010 12:37:30 AM
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Interesting
- 17/11/2010 01:15:55 AM
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Re: It's the first such work in English here.
- 17/11/2010 01:18:17 AM
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Re: It's the first such work in English here.
- 17/11/2010 01:22:30 AM
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Re: Ooh I know what you're talking about. I haven't read it though.
- 17/11/2010 01:24:39 AM
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Re: Ooh I know what you're talking about. I haven't read it though.
- 17/11/2010 10:39:34 AM
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That reminds me of our production of the Taming of the Shrew back in secondary school.
- 17/11/2010 01:25:10 AM
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Re: That reminds me of our production of the Taming of the Shrew back in secondary school.
- 17/11/2010 10:40:48 AM
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Is that so weird though?
- 17/11/2010 08:55:13 PM
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I was supposed to have read Cloud 9 a couple of weeks ago for class.
- 17/11/2010 02:41:07 PM
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Re: I was supposed to have read Cloud 9 a couple of weeks ago for class.
- 17/11/2010 04:03:46 PM
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