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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bate, Bernard, author.

Contributor:

Annamalai, E., editor.

the University of Chicago, funder.

Series:

South Asia in Motion

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political oratory--History--South Asia--20th century.

Political oratory.

Rhetoric--Political aspects--History--South Asia--20th century.

Rhetoric.

Tamil language--Political aspects--History--20th century.

Tamil language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (266 pages)

Place of Publication:

Stanford University Press 2021

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2021]

Language Note:

English

Biography/History:

Bernard Bate was Associate Professor of Anthropology at Yale-NUS College. A linguistic anthropologist who specialized in the Tamil language, his first book is Tamil Oratory and the Dravidian Aesthetic (2009). E. Annamalai is Visiting Professor of Tamil at the University of Chicago. Francis Cody is Associate Professor in Anthropology and in the Asian Institute, both at the University of Toronto. Malarvizhi Jayanth is a historian of colonial South Asia pursuing her doctorate at the University of Chicago. Constantine V. Nakassis is Associate Professor of Anthropology and affiliated faculty in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago.

Summary:

This book explains how modern political oratory in Tamil emerged out of Protestant missionary forms of speech.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781503628663

1503628663

OCLC:

1259320833

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access