Our Marginalized Relations discussion

Keith wrote: "I think some members may have already read this one, but it is still very relevant to aims of this group:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1..."



Yes, that is a good one! :)

If more members want this, I can pin this topic in the future and you can all suggest books in here.

How about

Left in the Dark

MeerderWörter wrote: "If more members want this, I can pin this topic in the future and you can all suggest books in here."

Yes please :-)

Laure wrote: "MeerderWörter wrote: "If more members want this, I can pin this topic in the future and you can all suggest books in here."

Yes please :-)"

*click* *click* updated:D

Rumell wrote: "How about

Left in the Dark"

That one looks fascinating.

This one is good. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...

Emma wrote: "Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil

This one isn't as related to the book club, but I think it is highly important and affects every person on the planet."

And we have to remember that marginalised communities suffer to a much greater extent than the not marginalised ones...

Not sure if this book fits into the group, but it sounded super interesting and important to me:
The Blood of Emmett Till

How about an untouchable's perspective?

Karukku

"In 1992 when a Dalit woman left the convent and wrote her autobiography, the Tamil publishing industry found her language unacceptable. So Bama Faustina published her milestone work Karukku privately in 1992—a passionate and important mix of history, sociology, and the strength to remember.

Karukku broke barriers of tradition in more ways than one. The first autobiography by a Dalit woman writer and a classic of subaltern writing, it is a bold and poignant tale of life outside mainstream Indian thought and function. Revolving around the main theme of caste oppression within the Catholic Church, it portrays the tension between the self and the community, and presents Bama's life as a process of self-reflection and recovery from social and institutional betrayal."

Might be hard to find locally. This would be a book to purchase

Emma wrote: "Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil

This one isn't as related to the book club, but I think it is highly important and affects every person on the planet."

This looks fascinating, thanks.

If no one has read this book, read it. The prose is like a good syrup, rich and full of complexity.
The subject, universal & about marginalization and how when conditions change, dynamics change! I'm talking psychological dynamics, group acceptance, personal status.

The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...

The title is OUT OF MY MIND, by Sharon M.Draper
This is the beginning:
"Words.

I'm surrounded by thousands of words. Maybe millions.

Cathedral. Mayonnaise. Pomegranate.
Mississippi. Neapolitan. Hippopotamus.
Silky. Terrifying. Iridescent.
Tickle. Sneeze. Wish. Worry.

Words have always swirled around me like snowflakes—each one delicate and different, each one melting untouched in my hands.

Deep within me, words pile up in huge drifts. Mountains of phrases and sentences and connected ideas. Clever expressions. Jokes. Love songs.

From the time I was really little—maybe just a few months old—words were like sweet, liquid gifts, and I drank them like lemonade. I could almost taste them. They made my jumbled thoughts and feelings have substance. My parents have always blanketed me with conversation. They chattered and babbled. They verbalized and vocalized. My father sang to me. My mother whispered her strength into my ear.

Every word my parents spoke to me or about me I absorbed and kept and remembered. All of them.

I have no idea how I untangled the complicated process of words and thought, but it happened quickly and naturally. By the time I was two, all my memories had words, and all my words had meanings.

But only in my head.

I have never spoken one single word. I am almost eleven years old.

Broken Republic
Broken Republic is a very important book written on the rights of forest dwellers or adivasi people. The forests that they live in are God for them. their life and livelihood is depended on it. i write life and livelihood separately as there are all perspectives included, social, psychological, economic etc, and each just as important. These forests are cleared for mining and the adivasis declared terrorists. This extremism in 8 -9 states of India is recognized as the biggest internal security issues of India by a former Home Minister. This book sheds light on the adivasi side of things in the battle against the Govt and big corporations who earn crores of rupees while the adivasis still find it hard to get two meals a day and get accepted by the society.

The God of Small Things
Arundhari Roy won the Man Booker Prize her novel, the God Of Small Things. This books talks of patriarchy, sexual exploitation of children and social discrimination based on caste. The book is beautifully written and i love it.