The Light of Knowledge : Literacy Activism and the Politics of Writing in South India / Francis Cody.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cody, Francis, 1976- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, 2013.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Cowinner of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology's Edward Sapir Book Prize. Since the early 1990s hundreds of thousands of Tamil villagers in southern India have participated in literacy lessons and other events designed to transform them into active citizens with access to state power. These efforts are part of a movement known as the Arivoli Iyakkam (the Enlightenment Movement), one of the most successful mass literacy movements in recent history. This rich ethnographic account of highlights the paradoxes inherent in such movements that seek to emancipate people through literacy. "A work of linguistic anthropology that makes crucial contributions to the study of literacy and language ideologies. It is also a broadly ranging work of social theory that will be of interest to students and scholars of the postcolonial state and neoliberal governmentality in South Asia and beyond, and of activism and social movements more generally."-Anthropological Quarterly

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

KU Select 2016 Backlist Collection

BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 100462

ISBN:

9780801469022

OCLC:

864276484

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access