Thanuja : A Memoir of Migration and Transition
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
9356407320
ISBN-13
9789356407329
Publisher
Bloomsbury India
Imprint
Bloomsbury India
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 18th, 2024
Print length
232 Pages
Weight
301 grams
Dimensions
23.00 x 14.70 x 2.50 cms
Ksh 4,150.00
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A Tamil refugee escaping the civil war in Sri Lanka, through India to Europe, Thanuja’s life is complicated by migration and gender transition. Confusion, pleasure and betrayal characterise the circuitous path to recognising herself as a woman. Gender reassignment surgery is a milestone, but there are difficulties ahead. In Thanuja’s words, ‘No one can even imagine what happens in a transwoman’s life. You cannot understand us with mainstream norms, laws, culture, literature and principles. We have been betrayed by history.’
This powerful memoir weaves family life, sexual awakening, work life, globe-spanning journeys and the navigation of state laws and regulations to present a fully human portrait of ambiguity and joyful contradiction, of a refugee claiming citizenship and of a transwoman claiming her body and dignity.
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