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by Bernard Bate; E. Annamalai (Editor); Francis Cody (Editor)


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Throughout history, speech and storytelling have united communities and mobilized movements. Protestant Textuality and the Tamil Modern examines this phenomenon in Tamil-speaking South India over the last three centuries, charting the development of political oratory and its influence on society. Supplementing his narrative with thorough archival work, Bernard Bate begins with Protestant missionaries' introduction of the sermonic genre and takes the reader through its local vernacularization. What originally began as a format of religious speech became an essential political infrastructure used to galvanize support for new social imaginaries, from Indian independence to Tamil nationalism. Completed by a team of Bate's colleagues, this ethnography marries linguistic anthropology to performance studies and political history, illuminating new geographies of belonging in the modern era.

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  • Title Protestant Textuality and the Tamil Modern: Political Oratory and the Social Imaginary in South Asia
  • Author Bernard Bate; E. Annamalai (Editor); Francis Cody (Editor)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 264
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Stanford University Press
  • Date 2021-08-17
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9781503628656 / 1503628655
  • Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 5.91 x 0.71 in (22.61 x 15.01 x 1.80 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Asian - General
    • Cultural Region: Indian
  • Library of Congress subjects Tamil language - Political aspects - History, Political oratory - South Asia - History -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2020050468
  • Dewey Decimal Code 494.811

About the author

Bernard Bate was Associate Professor of Anthropology at Yale-NUS College. A linguistic anthropologist who specialized in the Tamil language, his first book is Tamil Oratory and the Dravidian Aesthetic (2009). E. Annamalai is Visiting Professor of Tamil at the University of Chicago. Francis Cody is Associate Professor in Anthropology and in the Asian Institute, both at the University of Toronto. Malarvizhi Jayanth is a historian of colonial South Asia pursuing her doctorate at the University of Chicago. Constantine V. Nakassis is Associate Professor of Anthropology and affiliated faculty in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago.
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