E-Book, Englisch, 379 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
Reihe: SUNY series in Hindu Studies
Ebeling Colonizing the Realm of Words
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-4384-3201-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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The Transformation of Tamil Literature in Nineteenth-Century South India
E-Book, Englisch, 379 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
Reihe: SUNY series in Hindu Studies
ISBN: 978-1-4384-3201-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
Details the transformation of Tamil literary culture that came with colonialism and the encounter with Western modernity.
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
Weitere Infos & Material
List of Figures and Tables
Preface and Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Note on Transliteration, Pronunciation, and Translations of Tamil Primary Sources
Chapter 1
Introduction
Colonizing the Realm of Words: Literature and Colonialism
Tamil Literature in Nineteenth-Century South India
How to Ignore a Century of Literary Production
A Century of Cultural Change
In Search of a Lost Literature: The Chapters of This Book
Chapter 2
Mapping the Universe of the Pulavar: Ti. Minatcicuntaram Pillai (1815–1876) and the Field of Traditional Literary Practices
Pulavar Education and Pre-Modern Tamil Poetics
The Pulavars’ Genres: Pirapantam Works and Temple Myths (talapuranam)
Scholarship in the Name of the Lord: Monasteries as Patrons
When One’s Fame Rises to the Heavens: The Pulavars’ Economy of Praise
“Addressing the Assembly of Poets” (avaiyatakkam)
The Public Premiere (arankerram)
Occasional Poems (tanippatal) and Epistolary Poems (cittukkavi)
The Spoken and the Written Word: Composition, Performance, and Transmission
Of Gods and Kings: Themes and Contents of Pulavar Literature
The Uses of Akam Poetics in the Nineteenth Century: The Kulatturkkovai (1853)
Makavittuvan Ti. Minatcicuntaram Pillai: A Poets’ Poet
Chapter 3
Pulavars and Potentates: Structures of Literary Patronage at the Zamindars’ Courts and Beyond
Literature and Rituals of Courtly Representation
The System of Literary Patronage at the Zamindars’ Courts
A “Who Is Who” of Nineteenth-Century Royal Patrons and Their Poets
Thanjavur
Pudukkottai
Ramnad and Sivagangai
Smaller Zamindaris
Of Beauty and Benevolence: Themes of Courtly Literature
Kamas's Arrows Whizzing Past the King: Royal Panegyrics and Eroticism in the Cetupati viralivitututu
The Pulavar in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Changes in Patronage
Chapter 4
Toward the Modern Tamil Author: The Colonial Critique of the “Vernacular” and Mayuram Vetanayakam Pillai (1826–1889) as an Agent of Change
Mayuram Vetanayakam Pillai: A Biographical Reconstruction
Writing for “the moral improvement of the Natives of India”: The Nitinul (1859)
Law, Women’s Education and Devotional Poetry: Vetanayakam Pillai's Other Writings
Chapter 5
The Emergence of the Tamil Novel
The History of Prathapa Mudaliar (1879): An “approximation to a novel”?
The History of Suguna Sundari (1887): A “longwinded moral tale, weary and unprofitable”?
The Fatal Rumor or The History of Kamalambal (1893–1895): “Vedanta through fiction”?
Further Comparisons
Chapter 6
Epilogue
Appendices
The Dating of the Cetupati viralivitututu Revisited
Chronological Table of the Earliest Tamil Novels Published Before 1900
Original Tamil Texts Quoted and Annotations
Glossary
References
Index
