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Motywy erotyczne i tanatyczne w powieści „Kostnica” Dźagdamby Prasada Dikszita

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Kurowska J.
Przegląd Orientalistyczny
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2016
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issue 3-4
313-325
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One example of a literary work engaging with the problem of social seclusion is the Hindi novel Murdāghar written in 1974 by J.P. Dikshit. It describes the lives of prostitutes and pimps living in the slums of Bombay, trying to secure a minimum income, raise kids, find love and escape from the corrupted police forces and justice system. The existence of the poor is a constant struggle with hunger, disease and death. Newborn children are destined to die prematurely. Prostitutes do not enjoy healthcare or contraception while their partners engage in dangerous acts, such as smuggling and theft. After their death, the bodies of the poor become anonymous, amorphous corpses and a liability for the family which cannot afford its release from the morgue or a proper burial. They are lost in the mass of other unprivileged, desacralized bodies and will never find peace. Their death – untimely, violent and macabre – is a consequence of the life they led.
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