Passions of the tongue
language devotion in Tamil India, 1891-1970
by Sumathi Ramaswamy
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Why would love for their language lead several men in southern India to burn themselves alive in its name? Passions in the Tongue analyzes the discourses of love, labor, and life that transformed Tamil into an object of such passionate attachment, producing in the process one of modern India's most intense movements for linguistic revival and separatism.
Sumathi Ramaswamy suggests that these discourses cannot be contained within a singular metanarrative of linguistic nationalism and instead proposes a new analytic: "language devotion." She uses this concept to track the many ways in which Tamil was imagined by its speakers and connects these multiple imaginings to their experience of colonial and post-colonial modernity.
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History, Historiography, Critical pedagogy, Knowledge, Language and culture, Languages, Study and teaching, Dravidian languages, Political aspects, Nationalism, Language and languages, Tamil language, Language and languages, philosophy, India, languages, Psycholinguistics, Langues dravidiennes, Langage et langues, Étude et enseignement, Pédagogie critique, Langues, Aspect politique, Langage et culture, Histoire, Historiographie, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY, Hungarian, Knowledge and learningPeople
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Passions of the tongue: language devotion in Tamil India, 1891-1970
1997, University of California Press
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-293) and index.
A digital reproduction is available from E-Editions, a collaboration of the University of California Press and the California Digital Library's eScholarship program.
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