Colonizing the realm of words : the transformation of Tamil literature in nineteenth-century South India /

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...

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Hlavní autor: Ebeling, Sascha
Médium: Licensed eBooks
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2010.
Edice:SUNY series in Hindu studies.
On-line přístup:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.18252290
Obsah:
  • Introduction
  • Mapping the universe of the pulavar
  • Pulavars and potentates : structures of literary patronage at the Zamindars' courts and beyond
  • Towards the modern Tamil author : the colonial critique of the "vernacular" and mayuram
  • The emergence of the Tamil novel
  • Epilogue.