The light of knowledge : literacy activism and the politics of wr iting in South India / Francis Cody.
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Computer fileSeries: Expertise, cultures and technologies of knowledgeIthaca : Cornell University Press, 2013Description: xviii, 250 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780801452024 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0801452023 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780801479182 (paper: alk. paper)
- 0801479185 (paper: alk. paper)
- 379.2/4095482 23
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-240) and index.
Introduction : of light, literacy, and knowledge in the Tamil countr yside -- 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 meth od : the media of enlightenment -- Subject to citizenship : petitions a nd the performativity of signature -- Epilogue : reflections on a time of charismatic enlightenment.
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