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ISBN/UID: 9780520208056
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 20 November 1997
Description
Why would love for their language lead several men in southern India to burn themselves alive in its name? Passions of the Tongue analyzes the discourses of love, labor, and life that transformed Tamil into an object of such passionate attachment,...
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343 pages • missing pub info (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780520208056
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 20 November 1997
Description
Why would love for their language lead several men in southern India to burn themselves alive in its name? Passions of the Tongue analyzes the discourses of love, labor, and life that transformed Tamil into an object of such passionate attachment,...