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Religious devotion and the poetics of reform love and liberation in Malayalam poetry / George Pati.
| Author/creator | Pati, George |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2019. |
| Description | 1 online resource. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Uniform title | Experience, expression, and emancipation |
| Contents | Introduction: themes, theories, and trajectories -- Place: caste, colonialism, and reforms in Kerala (1870-1924) -- Person: Mahakavi Kumaran Asan (1873-1924) -- Poetics of devotion: bhakti as devotion -- Poetics of reform: bhakti as a movement. |
| Abstract | "The poetry emanating from the bhakti tradition of devotional love in India has been both a religious expression and a form of resistance to hierarchies of caste, gender, and colonialism. Some scholars have read this art form through the lens of resistance and reform, but others have responded that imposing an interpretive framework on these poems fails to appreciate their authentic expressions of devotion. This book argues that these declarations of love and piety can simultaneously represent efforts towards emancipation at the spiritual, political, and social level. This book, through a close study of Nalini (1911), a Malayalam lyric poem, as well as other poems, authored by Mahakavi Kumaran Asan (1873-1924), a low-caste Kerala poet, demonstrates how Asan employed a theme of love among humans during the modern period in Kerala that was grounded in the native South Indian bhakti understanding of love of the deity. Asan believed that personal religious freedom comes from devotion to the deity, and that love for humans must emanate from love of the deity. In showing how devotional religious expression also served as a resistance movement, this study provides new perspective on an understudied area of the colonial period. Bringing to light an under-explored medium, in both religious and artistic terms, this book will be of great interest to scholars of religious studies, Hindu studies, and religion and literature, as well as academics with an interest in Indian culture"-- Provided by publisher. |
| General note | Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--Boston University, 2006, titled Experience, expression, and emancipation : encountering bhakti in Kumaran Asan's Malayalam poems. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Pati, George, author. Religious devotion and the poetics of reform Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2019 9781138477995 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2019012292 |
| ISBN | 9781351103596 ( ePub) |
| ISBN | 9781351103619 (e-book) |
| ISBN | 9781351103602 (PDF) |
| ISBN | 9781351103589 (Mobi) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |