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Colonizing the Realm of Words
Sascha Ebeling
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The Transformation of Tamil Literature in Nineteenth-Century South India
出版SUNY Press, 2010-09-28
主題History / Asia / South / GeneralReligion / Hinduism / HistoryLiterary Criticism / Asian / IndicHistory / Modern / 19th Century
ISBN14384320119781438432014
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=_O1X_y_X-98C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.