The Light of knowledge literacy activism and the politics of writing in South India
Cowinner of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology's Edward Sapir Book Prize Since the early 1990s hundreds of thousands of Tamil villagers in southern India have participated in literacy lessons and other events designed to transform them into active citizens with access to state power. These...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Ithaca
Cornell University Press
2013, 2013
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| Series: | Expertise : Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | Cowinner of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology's Edward Sapir Book Prize Since the early 1990s hundreds of thousands of Tamil villagers in southern India have participated in literacy lessons and other events designed to transform them into active citizens with access to state power. These efforts are part of a movement known as the Arivoli Iyakkam (the Enlightenment Movement), one of the most successful mass literacy movements in recent history. This rich ethnographic account of highlights the paradoxes inherent in such movements that seek to emancipate people through literacy |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| ISBN: | 9780801469015 0801479185 0801469015 9780801452024 0801452023 9780801479182 |