Colonizing the Realm of Words: The Transformation of Tamil Literature in Nineteenth-Century South India - Couverture rigide

Ebeling, Sascha

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1438431996 ISBN 13 : 9781438431994

Editeur : State University of New York Press, 2010

Synopsis

Details the transformation of Tamil literary culture that came with colonialism and the encounter with Western modernity.

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 time-the emergence of the Tamil novel.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Sascha Ebeling is Assistant Professor of South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: State University of New York Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1438431996
• ISBN 13: 9781438431994
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 379
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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