The light of knowledge : literacy activism and the politics of writing in South India / Francis Cody.
Series: Expertise (Ithaca, N.Y.)Publisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2013Description: 1 online resource (273 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780801452024 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780801479182
- 9780801469022 (e-book)
- 379.2/4095482 23
- LC157.I52 C63 2013eb
eBooks
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : of light, literacy, and knowledge in the Tamil countryside -- On being a "thumbprint" : time and space in Arivoli activism -- Feminizing enlightenment : the social and reciprocal agency -- Labors of objectification : words and worlds of pedagogy -- Search for a method : the media of enlightenment -- Subject to citizenship : petitions and the performativity of signature -- Epilogue : reflections on a time of charismatic enlightenment.
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