The New Normal: A Paradoxical Overview On The Life Of Sesily As Seen In Kurumpanai C Berlin’s Talaichumadukari

Abstract

The literature of Nanjil landscape which represents the maritime ethnic group ‘Mukkuvar’ is embraced into the vast Tamil literature as Nanjil literature. Kurumpanai C Berlin’s 2021 novel Talaichumadukari is an overview of the life of this land. The crucial role of talaichumadu meenkachodam in the families who lost their breadwinner is vividly illustrated. Sesily’s determination to feed her children after the death of her husband reflects these seafarers’ woeful households. The novel discloses how the talaichumadu women are exploited wherever they go. It also explains how the plainspeople look down on them wherever and whenever they come in acquaintance with. What the plainspeople see as normal not normal in the life of these talaichumadu women until their lives are lived.