Protestant textuality and the Tamil modern : political oratory and the social imaginary in South Asia / / Bernard Bate ; edited by E. Annamalai [and three others]

• Autore: Bate Bernard
• Pubblicazione: Stanford University Press, 2021; Stanford, California : , : Stanford University Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (266 pages)
• Disciplina: 494.811
• Soggetto topico: Political oratory - History - South Asia - 20th century; Rhetoric - Political aspects - History - South Asia - 20th century; Tamil language - Political aspects - History - 20th century
• Soggetto non controllato: India; Modernity; Oratory; Politics; Public Sphere; Tamil; Textuality
• Persona (resp. second.): AnnamalaiE
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book explains how modern political oratory in Tamil emerged out of Protestant missionary forms of speech.
• Titolo autorizzato: Protestant Textuality and the Tamil Modern
• ISBN: 1-5036-2866-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910493751803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: South Asia in Motion