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Religious Devotion and the Poetics of Reform

Name: Religious Devotion and the Poetics of Reform
ISBN: 9781351103596

Love and Liberation in Malayalam Poetry

George Pati,

178 pages
English
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eBook - ePub

Religious Devotion and the Poetics of Reform

Love and Liberation in Malayalam Poetry

George Pati,

About this book

The poetry emanating from the bhakti tradition of devotional love in India has been both a religious expression and a form of resistance to hierarchies of caste, gender, and colonialism. Some scholars have read this art form through the lens of resistance and reform, but others have responded that imposing an interpretive framework on these poems fails to appreciate their authentic expressions of devotion. This book argues that these declarations of love and piety can simultaneously represent efforts towards emancipation at the spiritual, political, and social level.

This book, through a close study of Na?ini (1911), a Malayalam lyric poem, as well as other poems, authored by Mah?kavi Kum?ran ???n (1873–1924), a low-caste Kerala poet, demonstrates how ???n 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. ???n believed that personal religious freedom comes from devotion to the deity, and that love for humans must emanate from love of the deity.

In showing how devotional religious expression also served as a resistance movement, this study provides new perspective on an understudied area of the colonial period. Bringing to light an under-explored medium, in both religious and artistic terms, this book will be of great interest to scholars of religious studies, Hindu studies, and religion and literature, as well as academics with an interest in Indian culture.

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