English Literature - Prose and Drama

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English Literature - Prose and Drama

Who wrote under the pen name of Bama ?


Options:

  1. Faustina Mary Fatima Rani
  2. Kamla Das
  3. Perumal Murugan
  4. Gertrude Simmons Bonnin

Right Answer: Faustina Mary Fatima Rani

Bama is the pen name of Faustina Mary Fatima Rani, a Tamil Dalit Christian writer and teacher. Writing in Tamil, she recorded the double oppression of caste and gender in her autobiographical novel ‘Karukku’, which appeared in 1992 and is regarded as a landmark of Dalit literature. An extract from it is prescribed in the school syllabus along with a passage from Zitkala-Sa in the chapter ‘Memories of Childhood’. Her later works include ‘Sangati’ and ‘Vanmam’, and her prose is noted for its use of spoken Dalit Tamil.

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