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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| 格式: | Licensed eBooks |
| 語言: | 英语 |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
©2010.
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| 叢編: | SUNY series in Hindu studies.
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| 在線閱讀: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.18252290 |
書本目錄:
- 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.