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IN PRAISE OF HER: GENDER, NATION-NESS AND PANEGYRIC, EARLY MANIPRAVALAM AS PERFORMATIVE PRACTICE

In this article a reading of early Manipravalam literature of Keralam as a performative practice is attempted. Tracing out from the texts two historical milieus where praise poems in the hybrid tongue were performed, there is a search to read Manipravalams’ objectification of women and the unique na...

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Main Author: PRIYA V.
Format: Printed Book
Published: Samyukta: A Journal of Women’s Studies 2010
Online Access:http://10.26.1.76/ks/007492.pdf
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