Passions of the Tongue: Language Devotion in Tamil India, 1891–1970University of California Press, 1. sep. 2023 - 343 sider Why would love for their language lead several men in southern India to burn themselves alive in its name? Passions of 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. Focusing in particular on the transformation of the language into a goddess, mother, and maiden, Ramaswamy explores the pious, filial, and erotic aspects of Tamil devotion. She considers why, as its speakers sought political and social empowerment, metaphors of motherhood eventually came to dominate representations of the language. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1998. Why would love for their language lead several men in southern India to burn themselves alive in its name? Passions of the Tongue analyzes the discourses of love, labor, and life that transformed Tamil into an object of such passionate attachment, |
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Introduction Language in History and Modernity | 1 |
LANGUAGE AND DEVOTION | 4 |
LANGUAGE COLONIALISM AND MODERNITY | 9 |
LANGUAGE AND GENDER | 15 |
PREVIEW | 19 |
One Language Many Imaginings | 22 |
THE LANGUAGE DIVINE | 24 |
THE LANGUAGE CLASSICAL | 34 |
LANGUAGE AND PURITY | 144 |
RECHRISTENING MADRAS STATE | 154 |
DILEMMAS OF RULE | 161 |
BATTLING THE DEMONESS HINDI | 168 |
To Die For Living for Language | 179 |
THE WOMAN DEVOTEE | 183 |
THE MISSIONARY DEVOTEE | 189 |
THE BRAHMAN DEVOTEE | 194 |
INDIANIZING TAMIL | 46 |
DRAVIDIANIZING TAMIL | 62 |
THE MANY FACES OF TAMIL | 77 |
Feminizing Language Tamil as Goddess Mother Maiden | 79 |
THE POETICS AND POLITICS OF PRAISE | 80 |
PIETISTICS OF TAMIL DEVOTION | 85 |
SOMATICS OF TAMIL DEVOTION | 97 |
EROTICS OF TAMIL DEVOTION | 114 |
ON THE FEMINIZATION OF LANGUAGE | 121 |
VISUALIZING TAMILTTAY | 126 |
Laboring for Language The State of Tamil Devotion | 135 |
LANGUAGE AND LITURGY | 137 |
THE POET DEVOTEE | 204 |
THE SCHOLAR DEVOTEE | 208 |
THE DEVOTEE AS PUBLICIST | 215 |
THE DEVOTEE AS PATRON | 220 |
THE WARRIOR DEVOTEE | 224 |
THE DEVOTEE AS MARTYR | 228 |
THE ANTIDEVOTEE | 233 |
Conclusion Tamil Subjects | 243 |
Notes | 259 |
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