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  • An Aesthetics of Isolation: How Pudumaippittan Gave Pre-Eminence to the Tamil Short Story

    Author(s):
    Preetha Mani (see profile)
    Date:
    2020
    Group(s):
    LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic, TC Postcolonial Studies, TC Translation Studies, TC Women’s and Gender Studies, TM Literary Criticism
    Subject(s):
    Literature, Short stories, Indian literature, Fiction, Criticism and interpretation
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    interwar, colonial liter, Indian Independence, Comparative modernisms, World literature, Short story (genre), Novel criticism, Gender and sexuality, Postcolonial literature
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/arb1-js04
    Abstract:
    The influential Tamil writer Pudumaippittan turned to the short story to theorize the relationship between literature and society in the late-colonial era. He used the genre’s brevity to compress his portrayals of well-known female types—such as widows, prostitutes, and goodwives—into singular emotional events. This enabled Pudumaippittan to evoke the wider debates about tradition and modernity that these female types commonly represented without affirming the social reformist positions to which they were linked. Through the short story, Pudumaippittan dislodged his portrayals of the Indian woman from existing gender norms, sealing the shift from social realism to modernist realism within the Tamil literary sphere.
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    Published as:
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    Pub. DOI:
    10.1080/00856401.2020.1799138
    Publisher:
    Informa UK Limited
    Pub. Date:
    2020-9-13
    Journal:
    South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies
    Page Range:
    1 - 17
    ISSN:
    0085-6401,1479-0270
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    3 years ago
    License:
    All Rights Reserved

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