Table des matières
Kannan M. et Jennifer Clare
AcknowledgementsMary Premila Boseman
Translator’s noteKannan M.
IntroductionFrançois Gros
ReflectionsClassical Tamil
- Introduction
- PART I. Background
- I - Caṅkam: an academism and an elusive academy
- II - The Paripaṭal
- III - Paripāṭal and the eight anthologies: A chronological dilemma
- PART II. Towards an inventory
- I - Maturai, everlasting lotus
- II - The Vaiyai
- The erotic theme
- The ludic theme
- The religious theme: controversy
- III - Cevvēḷ
- IV - Tirumāl
- The Tirukkuṟaḷ of Tiruvaḷḷuvar: a Tamil classic
- The legendary lives of Tiruvaḷḷuvar
- “This nameless book, by a nameless author”
- A Tamil art of love
- The progression of the commentators
- The two approaches
- Two models of exposition
- Three fundamental ideas
- Dramatis personae: distiches or retorts
- Kaḷavu and kaṟpu, or the myth of the first meeting
- Five regions, five states of mind
- An indian art of love?
Contemporary Tamil
- I - The permanent axes
- The radical ambiguity: the modern or the traditional?
- At the beginning: “Once upon a time…”
- An ever evolving prose for an evolving world
- Popular magazines or small periodicals: Kalki against the Maṇikkoṭi group
- II - Before Independence, the path-finders
- Putumaippittaṉ (C. Viruttacalam, 1906-1948)
- Mauṉi (S. Mani 1907-1985)
- Ku. Pa. Rajagopalan (1902-1944), Na. Pichamurti (1900-1977)
- L. S. Ramamirtham (1916-2008)
- Ka. Na. Cu. (1912-1988), C. S. Cellappa (1912-1998)
- From Janakiraman to Alakiricami
- III - After Independence
- Marshes and slopes
- Ashokamitran and urban writing
- In the deep South on the borders of Kerala
- Migrants, mutants and memory’s landscapes
- Popular sirens: Jeyakantan, Sujata, and others
- In quest of dissonance
- The voices of women
- Christians and Muslims
- The irreducibles
- The present context
- Short stories selected and translated for the French anthology
- Short stories actually appeared in the French anthology L’arbre nâgalinga
- Dalits in and out of Tamil Nadu
- The Lure of the Dravidian Movement
- In Quest of Ancestors: Ayotti Das Kaviraja Pantitar, A Neo-Buddhism before Ambedkar
- A Detonator with a Long Fuse: The Massacre of Kīḻveṇmaṇi, 1968
- Unidentified Dalits: Explorers and Marginal Figures
- Organised Dalits: Documents for a History
- The Power of Words
- The Density of Associated Networks
- Local Private Associations
- Associations based on Caste
- Associations connected with Political Movements
- Christian Non-governmental Organisations (NGOs)
- Leftist Associations
- Dalit Organisations as Political Parties
- Cultural Movements
- Deployment of the Media
- From Theory to Theatre
- Who was not a Dalit by 1995?
- Towards a Literary Assessment
- Poetry
- Short Stories and Novels
- Women Speaking
- At Stake: Dalit Literature
Occasional Papers
A first assessment