TY - GEN T1 - Colonizing the realm of words : the transformation of Tamil literature in nineteenth-century South India T2 - SUNY series in Hindu studies. A1 - Ebeling, Sascha LA - English PP - Albany PB - State University of New York Press YR - 2010 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_ocn670429592 AB - A true tour de force, this book documents the transformation of one Indian literature, Tamil, under the impact of colonialism and Western modernity. While Tamil is a living language, it is also India's second oldest classical language next to Sanskrit, and has a literary history that goes back over two thousand years. On the basis of extensive archival research, Sascha Ebeling tackles a host of issues pertinent to Tamil elite literary production and consumption during the nineteenth century. These include the functioning and decline of traditional systems in which poet-scholars were patronized by religious institutions, landowners, and local kings; the anatomy of changes in textual practices, genres, styles, poetics, themes, tastes, and audiences; and the role of literature in the politics of social reform, gender, and incipient nationalism. The work concludes with a discussion of the most striking literary development of the timeùthe emergence of the Tamil novel. --Book Jacket. OP - 355 CN - PL4758 .E24 2010eb SN - 9781441674098 SN - 1441674098 SN - 1438432011 SN - 9781438432014 SN - 9781438431994 SN - 1438431996 SN - 9781438432007 SN - 1438432003 KW - Tamil literature : 19th century : History and criticism. KW - Literature and society : India, South : History : 19th century. KW - Littérature tamoule : 19e siècle : Histoire et critique. KW - Littérature et société : Inde (Sud) : Histoire : 19e siècle. KW - TRAVEL : Special Interest : Literary. KW - LITERARY CRITICISM : General. KW - Literature and society KW - Tamil literature KW - South India KW - Literatur. KW - Roman. KW - Tamil. KW - Kolonialismus. KW - Literaturproduktion. KW - 1800-1899 KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc. KW - History ER -