Caught in Translation: Ideologies of literary language in Kerala’s Maṇipravāḷam
Year: 2013
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: The project of “translation” between the Tamil and Sanskrit traditions of learned literary production has periodically engaged my interests as a linguistic and historical anthropologist over more than two decades. This has been centrally focused on a normative text of Kerala which tried to sanction and partly describe a regionally based literary language and literature poised between these two traditions. The 14th-century treatise, the Līlātilakam (hereafter LT), was written in Sanskri...
Author: Rich Freeman
Institution: Duke University
Language: English
Topic: Indian and Buddhist Studies
Subfield: Religious studies
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3040196569