Colonial Authority and Tami¿ Scholarship (eBook, ePUB)

A Study of the First English Translations
Redaktion: Indra, C T; Govindarajan, N.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book - an English translation of a key Tamil book of literary and cultural criticism - looks at the construction of Tamil scholarship through the colonial approach to Tamil literature as evidenced in the first translations into English.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000900163
• Artikelnr.: 68182382

Autorenporträt

C T Indra, former Professor of English, University of Madras, Chennai, India, taught in the Department for over three decades. She was a Fulbright Post-doctoral Fellow at Harvard (1980-81) and American Studies Research Fellow at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA (1990). Her areas of interest are Literary Criticism and Theory, Translation and Hagiography. She has translated from Tami¿ into English short stories, plays, a novella, poems and critical writings. Prema Jagannathan is Associate Professor of English (retired) and former Dean of Academic Affairs at Stella Maris College, Chennai, India. Her areas of interest include Indian Fiction, Bhakti Literature, Translation Studies and Communicative English.

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Authors

List of Figures

Foreword

Acknowledgements (Translators)

Acknowledgements (Tami Author)

Translators' Note



Introduction: Rethinking Dravidian Orientalism

N. Govindarajan's Preface

1 Researching India and Knowing the Tami Region: Studying India

2 Life of Kindersley

3 Tirukku a -The Ocean of Wisdom

4 The History of King Na a

5 Hegemonic Scholarship

Bibliography: English

Bibliography: Tami



Appendix

Glossary

Rezensionen

"The book, until now available only in Tami , paints a picture of Orientalist scholarship as it crystallized in the late-eighteenth century, prior to the discovery by Ellis of the existence of the Dravidian family of languages. At the same time, Dr Govindarajan redeems the fate of Tami works and the often anonymous Tami authors who composed in colloquial Tami and in a mostly oral literary and cultural milieu. One might say that Kindersley was a forerunner of the post-Orientalist, post-Colonial scholars of South Indian languages who have expanded the horizons of early modern South Indian cultures far beyond the prevalent grammatical and dialectal norms".

David Shulman, Professor Emeritus, Hebrew University, Jerusalem