History and imagination : Tamil culture in the global context / edited by R. Cheran, Darshan Ambalavanar, Chelva Kanaganayakam.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kanaganayakam, C. (Chelvanayakam), 1952-2014.

Cheran, R.

Ambalavanar, Darshan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tamil literature--History and criticism.

Tamil literature.

Tamil language.

Tamil (Indic people).

Ethnicity in literature.

Physical Description:

xii, 202 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Toronto : TSAR Canada, 2007.

Summary:

Tamils, originating in South India and Sri Lanka, constitute a large part of the diasporic South Asians in Canada, as well as the United States, Australia, and Europe. Many of them have fled the civil war in Sri Lanka. This rupture in the physical and imaginative landscape of the Tamils is undoubtedly reflected in their cultural production and has led to a renewal of their traditional aesthetics, which, in the words of the editors, "no longer adequately [capture] the richness or complexity of Tamil social and creative experience." This collection covers a broad range of topics relating to Tamil culture in the world, all of them examining the ancient traditional aesthetics and how they relate to a layered modern reality. This book is therefore of special relevance to the concerns of multiculturalism and globalization.

Contents:

Riding a Horse for Love: A Comparative Look at the Matal Poems of Tirumankaiyalvar and Ceyankontar / Archana Venkatesan 1

Lovely Recalcitrant Women: Tay Tamil, Cultural Agency, and Islamic Histories / Susan Schomburg 13

Culture, Cultivation, and Civility in the Tamil Country / Anand Pandian 48

The Challenge of Spoken Language to Creative Writers in Modern Tamil / E Annamalai 63

History and the Caste Imagination: Some Notes on Contemporary Tamil Fiction / V Geetha 76

Towards a Tamil Left Perspective on the Ethnic Crisis in Sri Lanka / Ravi Vaitheespara 90

Poetics, Language, and Genre in Contemporary Tamil Literature from Sri Lanka / Chelva Kanaganayakam 124

When Two Cultures Collide at the Bedside: Religio-Cultural Value Conflicts and Medico-Ethical Decision-Making Among the Tamil Community in Canada / Joseph A Chandrakanthan 138

Citizens of Many Worlds: Theorizing Tamil DiasporiCity / R Cheran 150

An Anachronistic Arruppatai for Lord Murukan: Mapping Historical Ruptures in the Saiva Literary Imagination / Layne Little 169.

Notes:

"A TSAR Book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781894770361

1894770366

OCLC:

86004233