Passions of the tongue : language devotion in Tamil India, 1891–1970 / / Sumathi Ramaswamy

• Autore: Ramaswamy Sumathi
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [1997]; ©1997
• Edizione: Reprint 2019
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxiii, 303 p. ) : ill.
• Disciplina: 494/.811/0954
• Soggetto topico: Language and languages - Study and teaching - United States; Critical pedagogy - United States; Language and culture - India - History; Nationalism - India - History; Critical pedagogy - History - United States; Language and culture - History - India; Nationalism - India
• Soggetto geografico: India Languages Political aspects; India History British occupation, 1765-1947 Historiography
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration -- Preface -- 1. Introduction: Language in History and Modernity -- 2. One Language, Many Imaginings -- 3. Feminizing Language: Tamil as Goddess, Mother, Maiden -- 4. Laboring for Language: The State of Tamil Devotion -- 5. To Die For: Living for Language -- 6. Conclusion: Tamil Subjects -- Notes -- References -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Why would love for their language lead men in southern India to burn themselves alive in its name? This book analyzes the discourses of love, labour, and life that transformed Tamil into an object of such attachment, producing in the process one of modern India's most intense movements for linguistic revival and separatism.
• Titolo autorizzato: Passions of the tongue
• ISBN: 9780520918795; 0520918797; 9780585106007; 0585106002
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910496145503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies on the history of society and culture ; ; v. 29.