{"product_id":"passions-of-the-tongue-language-devotion-in-tamil-india-1891-1970-volume-29-paperback","title":"Passions of the Tongue: Language Devotion in Tamil India, 1891-1970 Volume 29 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSumathi Ramaswamy\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy would love for their language lead several men in southern India to burn themselves alive in its name? \u003ci\u003ePassions of the Tongue\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn important and original book providing a completely new perspective on the intellectual and cultural history of southern India. . . . Sumathi Ramaswamy has both produced a major work of comparative history and made the finest scholarly contribution to the intellectual and cultural history of modern Tamil Nadu to date.--Nicholas B. Dirks, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Hollow Crown\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The most thorough account of the history of the symbolic profusion of a language--any language--I have ever read . . . The scholarship is extraordinary, and Ramaswamy is quite likely the most knowledgeable on this subject in the whole of India--nay, the world.\"--E. Valentine Daniel, author of \u003ci\u003eCharred Lullabies: Chapters in an Anthropography of Violence\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSumathi Ramaswamy\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 343\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.85 x 8.95 x 6.01 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 20, 1997\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52959965511987,"sku":"9780520208056","price":68.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/ErlXqD_4jU9780520208056.webp?v=1768474413","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/passions-of-the-tongue-language-devotion-in-tamil-india-1891-1970-volume-29-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}