Tamil Geographies: Cultural Constructions of Space and Place in South India - Hardcover
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How perceptions of land and space influence social and aesthetic conditions in the Tamil region of India.
This interdisciplinary work explores how people in the Tamil region of India think about space and land, and how this, in turn, influences the creation of the social and aesthetic world they live in. Contributors focus on the notion of geography in its strictest sense, on verbal descriptions of land and space and how these descriptions build and inform diverse social and aesthetic realities. The essays examine "texts" drawn from a range of time periods and a variety of sources in Tamil culture, including imaginative literature, historical events and narratives, religious rituals, and daily life in contemporary Tamil Nadu. The book clearly demonstrates the ways in which early Tamil aesthetic and linguistic paradigms have survived to the present as living, vital expressions through which contemporary boundaries and social identities are shaped and constructed.
Martha Ann Selby is Associate Professor of South Asian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin and the translator and editor of Grow Long, Blessed Night: Love Poems from Classical India. Indira Viswanathan Peterson is David B. Truman Professor of Asian Studies at Mount Holyoke College and author of Design and Rhetoric in a Sanskrit Court Epic: The Kiratarjuniya of Bharavi, also published by SUNY Press.
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