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Language, emotion, and politics in south India : the making of a mother tongue /
What makes someone willing to die, not for a nation, but for a language? In the mid-20th century, southern India saw a wave of dramatic suicides in the name of language. Lisa Mitchell traces the colonial-era changes in knowledge and practice linked to the Telugu language that lay behind some of thes...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
©2009.
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| Colección: | Contemporary Indian studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Note on Transliteration and Spelling; Introduction: A New Emotional Commitment to Language; 1. From Language of the Land to Language of the People: Geography, Language, and Community in Southern India; 2. Making a Subject of Language; 3. Making the Local Foreign: Shared Language and History in Southern India; 4. From Pandit to Primer: Pedagogy and Its Mediums; 5. From the Art of Memory to the Practice of Translation: Making Languages Parallel; 6. Martyrs in the Name of Language? Death and the Making of Linguistic Passion.