![]() ![]() ![]() Livestock and poultry are important sources of income and food for the peasant’s family. Through close descriptions of the wealth of knowledge and skills in a farming community, the reader also becomes intimately familiar with the community’s inner life and the challenges that confront it continually.Ĭulture in northern Kongunadu is not based solely on cultivation. However, unlike in ethnography, which often functions like Medusa’s head, freezing the community in a set of unchanging customs and practices, Murugan uses the details imaginatively to bring the terrain and people alive, giving them dignity and legitimacy. ![]() Some critics have seen shades of ethnography in Murugan’s work. Through his eyes, we experience the method used to clear virgin land of rocks and stones, the strategy for rearranging palm fronds on a tree for tapping toddy, and the way to cook millet over a wood fire to produce a tasty dish. The cultivator’s life, with its range of tasks, implements and infrastructure, is described in fascinating detail. Peenya-Bangalore Abstractįiction by Perumal Murugan has many features that are special to his chosen setting. *Shruthi.T, Assistant Professor of English, Government first Grade College. © 2020 JETIR April 2020, Volume 7, Issue 4 (ISSN-2349-5162) Cultural Identity and Identity crisis in Perumal Murugan's novels one-part woman and Pyre Cultural Identity and Identity Crisis in Perumal Murugan's Novels One-Part Woman and Pyre ![]()
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