KOLAM
Vols. 9&10 (January 2004)

Proceedings
of the Panel 36 at the
17^th European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies
Heidelberg, September 9^th – 14^th, 2002

 

Tamil Studies: Current Trends and Perspectives

edited by Sascha Ebeling, Thomas Lehmann and Ulrike Niklas

 

 

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Editorial Preface

Photographs and Addresses of the Participants

Abstracts of the Papers

 

First Session: Tamil Literature

Gabriella Eichinger Ferro-Luzzi, Rome Ý  "Facing Death in Modern Tamil Literature"

Stuart H. Blackburn, London  Ý "Folklore and Tamil Literary Fiction: C.G. Beschi's Guru Simpleton"

Indira Viswanathan Peterson, Columbia (USA) Ý "Religion and Reconstruction of Artistic Traditions in Kalaimani's novel Tillana Mohanambal"

Dagmar Hellmann-Rajanayagam, Erlangen-Nürnberg Ý "Held oder Märtyrer? Ambivalenzen eines Konzeptes in der Lyrik der Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)"

 

Second Session: Tamil Linguistics and Epigraphy

 

Jean-Luc Chevillard, Paris — "Ideophones in Tamil: Historical Observations on the Morphology of X-enal expressives"

A. Murugaiyan, Paris — "Experiencer Predicates in Old Tamil: Evidences of a Syntactic Change?"

Sascha Ebeling, Cologne — "The DASI Project: A Digital Archive of South Indian Inscriptions"

 

Third Session: Old and Medieval Tamil

Eva Wilden, Hamburg — "Announcement of a Critical Edition of the Narrinai"

Takanobu Takahashi, Tokyo — "Before Grammar: Issues on Reading some Classical Tamil Texts"

Thomas Lehmann, Heidelberg — "On the Concept of Kaikol in Nampi's Akapporul Vilakkam"

Daud Ali, London — "Notes Towards Understanding Secular Processions in Medieval South India"

 

Fourth Session: Tamil Religious and Anthropological Studies

Srilata Müller, Heidelberg — "Representing the Saint's Body: Ramalinka Atikal in the Hagiographical Literature"

Peter Schalk, Uppsala — "Breaking up Stereotypes about Pauttam in Ilam"

Annette Wilke, Münster — "The Goddess Kamatci in Hamm-Uentrop (Westfalia, Germany)"

Brigitte Luchesi, Bremen — "Leaving Invisibility: The Establishment of Hindu-Tamil Religiosity in German Public Space"

Diane P. Mines, Appalachian State (USA) — "Making a Village: An Essay on Place, Time and Action in Tamilnadu"

 

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