by SaskiaKersenboom (Author)
Challenges dominant parameters of literacy by comparing the oral tradition of the Tamils in South India with the Western culture of printed text. The author examines the reasons for the differences between the Indian and Western textual traditions, and describes how text lives through the performing arts of words, sound and imagery.
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 280
Edition: Har/Com
Publisher: Berg Publishers
Published: 01 Nov 1995
ISBN 10: 085496424X
ISBN 13: 9780854964246