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Autore |
Bate Bernard |
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Titolo |
Protestant textuality and the Tamil modern : political oratory and the social imaginary in South Asia / / Bernard Bate ; edited by E. Annamalai [and three others] |
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Stanford University Press, 2021 |
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Stanford, California : , : Stanford University Press, , [2021] |
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©2021 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (266 pages) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Political oratory - History - South Asia - 20th century |
Rhetoric - Political aspects - History - South Asia - 20th century |
Tamil language - Political aspects - History - 20th century |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover -- Contents -- Editors' Preface -- Editors' Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration and Citations -- Bernard Bate's Acknowledgments -- Foreword: Speaking of Barney Bate -- Introduction: Protestant Textuality and the Tamil Modern -- PART I: THE PROTESTANT MODERN -- 1 The Ethics of Textuality -- 2 Arumuga Navalar and the Protestant Modern -- PART II: THE TAMIL MODERN -- 3 Speaking Swadeshi, Madras 1907 -- 4 Subramania Bharati and the Tamil Modern -- 5 Elocutionary Incandescence -- Epilogue: Home Rule, the Labor Movement, and Linguistic and Political Modernity -- Afterword: Oratory and the Origins of Politics -- Notes -- References -- Index. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book explains how modern political oratory in Tamil emerged out of Protestant missionary forms of speech. |
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