Amma’s Daughters: A Memoir
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Amma’s Daughters: A Memoir

""Our Lives: Diary, Memoir, and Letters" series" series ##12

by Meenal Shrivastava
  • general-other-non-fiction
  • history-politics-current-affairs
  • literary
  • memoir
As a precocious young girl, Surekha knew very little about the details of her mother Amma’s unusual past and that of Babu, her mysterious and sometimes absent father. The tense, uncertain family life created by her parents’ distant and fractious marriage and their separate ambitions informs her every action and emotion. Then one evening, in a moment of uncharacteristic transparency and vulnerability, Amma tells Surekha and her older sister Didi of the family tragedy that changed the course of her life. Finally, the daughters begin to understand the source of their mother’s deep commitment to the Indian nationalist movement and her seemingly unending willingness to sacrifice in the name of that pursuit. In this re-memory based on the published and unpublished work of Amma and Surekha, Meenal Shrivastava, Surekha’s daughter, uncovers the history of the female foot soldiers of Gandhi’s national movement in the early twentieth century.

Contributors

Meenal Shrivastava, author

Meenal Shrivastava is professor and academic coordinator of political economy and global studies. Her research on the processes of globalization has led to more than thirty peer-reviewed publications; seventy conference papers, guest lectures, and opinion pieces; and a co-edited volume, Alberta Oil and the Decline of Democracy in Canada (AU Press, 2015).

Rights Holder

Rights Holder: Athabasca University Press

email: kathyk@athabascau.ca

website: http://www.aupress.ca

rights available: World

Additional Information

age range: Adult

number of pages: 320

publication date: 08/01/2018

Original language of pub: english

Materials Available: finished book