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  1. Extraordinary child
    poems from a South Indian devotional genre
    Author: Richman, Paula
    Published: 1997
    Publisher:  Univ. of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu

    For hundreds of years Tamil poets have been composing devotional texts in which they adopt the voice of a mother and address praises to an extraordinary child. The poems, called pillaittamil (literally "Tamil for a child"), form a major genre of... more

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    For hundreds of years Tamil poets have been composing devotional texts in which they adopt the voice of a mother and address praises to an extraordinary child. The poems, called pillaittamil (literally "Tamil for a child"), form a major genre of Tamil literature. Since the twelfth century, when the first known pillaittamil was written in honor of a Chola king, many of these poems have been composed in praise of Murugan and South Indian goddesses, as well as saints and venerated monastic abbots In recent times pillaittamils have been dedicated to the Prophet Muhammad, the Virgin Mary, and Baby Jesus, as well as notable political figures and moviestars. Extraordinary Child provides a sampler of translations, from, and analysis of, seven pillaittamils of particular religious, aesthetic, or political significance Interspersed throughout the translations are essays on topics such as the virtuoso displays of poetic skill in poems addressed to the moon (a standard component of pillaittamil), the influence of pillaittamil on temple art, and the ways in which pillaittamil have been used for political purposes. An introduction initiates the reading into the pillaittamil tradition by explaining what a pillaittamil does and how contemporary Western audiences can learn to savor the subtleties of the poetry

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 0824810635
    Series: SHAPS library of translations
    Subjects: Hymnen; Kinderen; Grammatik; Kind; Devotional poetry, Tamil; Devotional poetry, Tamil; Piḷḷaittamiḻ; Tamil language
    Scope: XIII, 297 S., Ill.
  2. Extraordinary child
    poems from a South Indian devotional genre
    Published: c1997
    Publisher:  University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu, HI

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0824810635
    Series: SHAPS library of translations
    Subjects: Grammatik; Piḷḷaittamiḻ; Devotional poetry, Tamil; Devotional poetry, Tamil; Tamil language
    Scope: xiii, 297 p.
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    "A publication of the School of Hawaiian Asian & Pacific Studies, University of Hawai'i"--P. preceding t.p

    Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-279) and index