Protestant textuality and the Tamil modern : political oratory and the social imaginary in South Asia /
"By tracing the genealogy of Tamil political oratory alongside the development of political modernity in South Asia, the author argues that speech and rhetoric shape how history unfolds and how a social order is structured"--
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , , , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Stanford, California :
Stanford University Press,
[2021]
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Colección: | South Asia in motion.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword : speaking of Barney Bate, or "Tamil oratory is new" / by A.R. Venkatachalapathy
- Introduction : Protestant textuality and the Tamil modern
- The ethics of textuality
- Arumuga Navalar and the Protestant modern
- Speaking Swadeshi
- Subramania Bharati and the Tamil modern
- Elocutionary incandescence
- Epilogue : home rule, the labor movement, and linguistic and political modernity
- Afterword : oratory and the origins of politics / by Sudipta Kaviraj