Religious Devotion and the Poetics of Reform: Love and Liberation in Malayalam Poetry

ISBN-13: 9780367731656 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 178 str.

George Pati

Opis

This book, through a close study of Naḷini, as well as other poems, authored by Mahākavi Kumāran Āśān, demonstrates how Āśān employed a theme of love among humans during the modern period in Kerala that was grounded in the native South Indian bhakti understanding of love of the deity.

Spis treści

1 Introduction: Themes, Theories, and Trajectories  2 Place: Caste, Colonialism, and Reforms in Kerala (1870–1924)  3 Person: Mahākavi Kumāran Āśān (1873-1924)  4 Poetics of Devotion: Bhakti as Devotion  5 Poetics of Reform: Bhakti as a Movement  6 Conclusion;  Appendix 1: Transliterations of Malayāḷam Poems  Appendix 2: Translation of Naḷini or Oru Snēham (1911)

O autorze

George Pati holds the Surjit S. Patheja Chair in World Religions and Ethics and is Associate Professor of Theology and International Studies at Valparaiso University, USA. His research interests include religious literature in the Malayalam language, South Asian devotional traditions, and the mediation of Hindu devotion through texts, rituals, and performances of Kerala, South India.