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Author: R. Cheran; Darshan Ambalavanar; Chelva Kanaganayakam
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by R Cheran [Editor]; Darshan Ambalavanar [Editor]; Chelva Kanaganayakam [Editor];

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Based on presentations at the 1st Tamil Studies Conference, held at the University of Toronto, May 2006; organized by the Centre for South Asian Studies of the University of Toronto and the Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology of the University of Windsor. Includes bibliographical references.

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Tamils, originating in South India and Sri Lanka, constitute a large part of the diasporic South Asians in Canada, as well as the United States, Australia, and Europe. Many of them have fled the civil war in Sri Lanka. This rupture in the physical and imaginative landscape of the Tamils is undoubtedly reflected in the their cultural production and has led to a renewal of their traditional aesthetics, which, in the words of the editors, "no longer adequately [capture] the richness or complexity of Tamil social and creative experience." This collection covers a broad range of topics relating to Tamil culture in the world, all of them examining the ancient traditional aethetics and how they relate to a layered modern reality. This book is therefore of special relevance to the concerns of multiculturalism and globalization.

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Title History and Imagination Tamil Culture in the Global Context
Author R Cheran [Editor]; Darshan Ambalavanar [Editor]; Chelva Kanaganayakam [Editor];
Binding Paperback
Pages 202
Language ENG
Publisher Tsar Publications, Toronto
Date March 10, 2007
ISBN 9781894770361

About the author

R Cheran is currently an associate professor in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology at the University of Windsor. His publications include History and Imagination: Tamil Culture in the Global Context (2007), New Demarcations: Essays in Tamil Studies (2009), Pathways of Dissent: Tamil Nationalism in Sri Lanka (2010), and Empowering Diasporas: Dynamics of Post War Tamil Transnational Politics (2011).

Darshan Ambalavanar has a doctoral degree in religious studies from Harvard University.

Chelva Kanaganayakam was a professor in the Department of English at the University of Toronto and the Director for the Centre for South Asian Studies at the University of Toronto. His major publications include Moveable Margins: The Shifting Spaces of Canadian Literature (2005), Counterrealism and Indo Anglian Fiction (2002), Lutesong and Lament: Tamil Writing from Sri Lanka (2001), Dark Antonyms and Paradise: The Poetry of Rienzi Crusz (1997), Configurations of Exile: South Asian Writers and Their World (1995), and Structures of Negation: The Writings of Zulfikar Ghose (1993).

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