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Journal articles on the topic "Tamil fiction"

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G, Nirmaladevi. "Transit in Kalki Historical Novels." International Research Journal of Tamil 3, S-1 (2021): 279–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.34256/irjt21s145.

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The novel is one of the brand new arts acquired by Tamils ​​due to European contact and learning English. In storytelling for Tamils ​​since ancient times; there is involvement. However, the literary form of the novel became known to the people only after learning English novels. As a result, AD.Novels may have appeared in Tamil in the late nineteenth century. By the time the first novel appeared in Tamil, Tamils ​​were well versed in education. So the number of scholars was increasing. Tamils ​​learned to speak English along with Tamil. It is easy for people to move from one place to another due to the convenience of the train. A number of printing presses appeared and printed texts. Thus diminishing the influence of poetry influence of prose grew. These were the reasons for the origin of the Tamil novel and its subsequent development. The novels thus multiplied into science fiction, science fiction, enlightenment novel, Gandhian novel, Marxist novel, social novels, social novels, and historical novels. The purpose of this article is to examine the nature of historical novels and Kalki's contribution to them.
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M, Christopher. "Life Problems of Tamils of Highlands in the Fictions of Maatthalai Somu." International Research Journal of Tamil 4, S-9 (2022): 27–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.34256/irjt22s95.

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Immigrant Tamil literature has an important place in Highland literature. Highland Tamil literature can be considered a part of immigrant literature. It is a rich literary field with many literary genres like folk literature, poetry, short stories, novels, dramas, and essays. Highland writers have contributed to and enriched the field of literature. Their field of literature is expanding beyond the Sri Lankan highlands to include Tamil Nadu, European countries, and other countries in the world. In this way, Maatthalai Somu is an international Tamil writer who records Sri Lanka (Highland), India (Tamil Nadu), Australia and the lives of Tamils living in them. Highland literature is two hundred years old. European countries that conquered large parts of the world to accumulate capital, exploited the resources of their colonies and the labour of indigenous peoples. In this way, the British, who took control of Sri Lanka in 1815, ended the Kandy monarchy. In 1820, coffee plantations were started. After that, they also cultivated cash crops like sugarcane, tea, and rubber. The South Indian Tamils migrated and settled in the highlands for the manpower to work on these large plantations. These Tamils are called Highland Tamils. Famine and oppression in India in the nineteenth century also caused Tamils to immigrate to Sri Lanka. The hard labour of Tamils was used in creating and cultivating these plantations. The history and life problems of such highland Tamils have been recorded by the highland Tamil writer Maatthalai Somu in his fiction.
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N, Rathnakumar. "Biographies of the Kuravars in Tamil Novels." International Research Journal of Tamil 4, no. 2 (2022): 21–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.34256/irjt2223.

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Although realist novels in Tamil are largely colossal (Panjum Pasiyum, Malarum Sarugum, Thaagam) there is very little room for the minority race and are included in some parts of the novel. After the year of Two thousand, translation novels (Marathi) about tribes such as Lakshman Keikwat's Uchalia, Lakshman Mane's Upara, and Chandabai Kale's Kulathi changed the course of Tamil novels. The unbridled ethnographic biographies presented by these novels set the stage for other marginalized ethnic groups to come out of fiction, as well as the expansive boundaries of the Dalit novels. It is to be welcomed that the trend of writing novels focusing on the biographies of the Tamil ‘Kuravargal’ has developed in the Tamil context. Their cultural movements, such as the beliefs, rituals, diets, cults, habitat, and occupational crises of ethnic minorities, have begun to feature in recent narratives. In particular, Pandiyakkannan's novels Salavan, Malaipparai and Nugathadi can be read as doco- fictions. This article summarizes the center, format, and commentary of the novels.
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Varghese, Subin. "Merging Fact, Fiction and Myth: Reading TD Ramakrishnan’s Sugandhi Enna Aandaal Devanayaki as a Historiographic Metafiction." SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH 9, no. 3 (2021): 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.24113/ijellh.v9i3.10939.

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TD Ramakrishnan’s novel Sugandhi Enna Aandaal Devanayaki is a mixture of the mythological, metaphysical and historical into a fictional space which transcends the boundaries of nation. The novel is a quest for retelling the historical trauma of Sreelanka. In the search for Sugandhi a Tamil liberation activist, the narrator stumbles upon the mythical Sugandhi from the folklore, creating tension between faction and reality. In the search for the mythical Sugandhi Ramakrishnan uses ‘SusinaSupina’ and arrives at Devanayaki belonging to 7th century AD Pallava Dynasty. As fact, fiction and myth blur into the contemporary social space, the myth of Devanayaki merges with Rajani Thirinagame creating the notion of the alternate history from a female perspective. In the novel History blurs into myth, reality into fiction, contemporary into past, individual into society and body into spirit.TD Ramakrishnan deconstructs the millennium old Tamil- Sinhalese political history using the alternate history from mythology and folklore. This paper is an attempt to read the novel Sugandhi Enna AandaalDevanayaki as a Historiographic metafiction.
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K, Karthick, and Thiruveni V. "History and Reconstruction of Thirugnanasambandar." International Research Journal of Tamil 4, no. 3 (2022): 1–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.34256/irjt2231.

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Religious literature in Tamil is full of fiction with many unnatural events. Such stories were created for the development of religion. Beyond the tendency to approach them superficially as mere fiction, it is essential for the intelligent community to explore them on the basis that every fictional story has a background cause.Thus, the scriptures tell the story of Thirugnanasambandar, who is considered to be a Saiva (Devotee of Lord Siva) doing impossible deeds, differently from each other. This article reviews the obvious readings and reconstructions of the history of Thirugnanasambandar by Vannacharabam Dhandapani Swami in his Puluvar Puranam. They convey the oral stories and ideas about Thirugnanasambandar, that existed in the 19th century, as well as the logical study of history and the fictional background of antecedents.
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Zvelebil, K. V. "Rāvaṇa the Great in modern Tamil fiction". Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland 120, № 1 (1988): 126–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0035869x00164184.

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The title of this brief essay is an echo of the title of a book once famous, nowadays almost forgotten: M. S. Purnalingam Pillai, Ravana the Great: King of Lanka (Munnirpallam, 1928). The same author, in his better-known Tamil Literature (1929) wrote: “The ten-faced and twenty-armed Ravana was apparently a very intelligent and valiant hero, a cultured and highly civilized ruler, knew the Vedas and was an expert musician. He took away Sita according to the Tamilian mode of warface, had her in the Asoka woods companioned by his own niece, and would not touch her unless she consented.” With this re-evaluation of the character of Rāvaṇa goes hand in hand a milder yet decisive re-evaluation of Rāma, of Rāma's warriors, of Vibhīṣaṇa, and other dramatis personae of the great story. Vibhīṣaṇa is portrayed as “the treacherous brother or deserter of Ravana, who desired to be King by hook or by crook”, the Aryans are described as haughty, cowardly, of low morality; Rāma “has his specks”, he lacks courage and falters in crises. In contrast, Rāvaṇa is not only “a physical and an intellectual giant” but also “great administrator and leader of men, … a man of his word”.
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S, Arul Josephine. "Women in Tamil Magazines." International Research Journal of Tamil 4, S-14 (2022): 15–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.34256/irjt224s142.

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Even though the printed version of books started to come in the tenth century, still palm leaves were used to compile the literature. Due to the evolution of printing of books, the conventional types of byhearting and remembering slowly started to dilute. However, only limited books were available before the evolution of printed books. Those available books were also meant for educational purposes only. Books related to entertainment and libraries apart from education campuses were not available at that time. At this point in time, the people started to enjoy the benefits of a printing press where a large volume of books was made available to the public. The newly printed books were not only meant for educational purposes but also for entertainment purposes. In the recent Tamil context, there are two major topics that were highly spoken namely Feminism and Dalitism. In the two-thousand-year-long history of Tamil literature, the space for women and their literature was limited. Expect for the sanga ilakkiyam, the role of women in Tamil literature is scarce. After the Indian independence, many women literates were identified. The flow of literature in the current generation is mostly based on fiction. Due to the domination of the printing press, the volume of books in Tamil was increased in fiction-based books with less importance to grammatical-oriented books. Every script was initiated by men and later it is passed onto women.
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Murugesapandian, N. "The Realm of Death that Continues Like a Shadow, and the World that the Fictional World Portrays: The World of Novelist Iraianbu’s Avvulagam Novel." Shanlax International Journal of Tamil Research 7, no. 1 (2022): 1–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.34293/tamil.v7i1.5088.

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Literary records of death questioning the existence of human beings from time to time have been found in Tamil since the Sangam period. Concepts of death in the Tamil tradition have been reported in ancient Tamil literary works. In terms of fiction, the number of novels in Tamil is small compared to short stories that precede death. The relationship between human beings and death is theoretically based on the novels ‘Sagavaram’ and ‘Avvulakam’ written by V.Iraianbu are noteworthy. The myths and legends created by V.Iraianbu who seek to trace the place of death as part or all of human life through storytelling are worthwhile.
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Seagren, Ronnie. "A linked index for an oral Tamil folk epic: a case study." Indexer 42, no. 1 (2024): 33–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/index.2023.55.

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Some projects have a life of their own, and in this case study Ronnie Seagren presents the experience of a straightforward book indexing project that grew into its own saga, including editing and work with a hybrid publisher. She was asked to index an important medieval Tamil epic story that was both obscure and out of print. This republishing journey took two and a half years. The index had to meet the needs of several very different audiences: Tamil scholars, students comparing epic stories, and a general public just wanting to learn something about South Asian folk culture. Indexing a work of fiction poses specific indexing dilemmas. Working with a small hybrid publisher, where the author bore all of the costs of publishing, posed many more. The project was very specific, but it has implications for indexing both fiction and self-published books.
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M, Chellamuthu. "Identities of Transgender People in Ancient Tamil Literature." International Research Journal of Tamil 5, no. 1 (2023): 74–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.34256/irjt23111.

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In human society, it is natural to see two genders, male and female. It is somewhat surprising that the work of transgender people, who can be called the third gender, is somewhat surprising. In the Mahabharatam, the story of the birth of a transsexual is extended. In nature's creation, we find these people incarnated as transsexuals in practical life. The records of transgenders can be found in abundance in Sangam literary grammar. Transgender people, who have been marginalized in society, are denied the right to participate in public. Transgenders living in small groups in the human community have been ridiculed as "identityless." This is the situation today. In the Sangam literary records, their identity has been recognized socially. It can be said that their contribution to the level of education is low. Transgenders, who are marginalized people, are more likely to be rejected at all levels. Since they lacked the right to education, there was no context in grammatical and literary fiction in which the pedis (hermaphrodites), the transgenders, could register their right to life. No one comes forward to help in public, fearing that if they raise their voice for them, they will be respected as untouchables in society. This denial is also a contemporary phenomenon. As a result, it is necessary to compile how third-gender identities are recorded in the literary field. Transgenders, also known as hermaphrodites, exist as records in literary life. The location of such people's lives is clearly visible in grammatical and literary fiction.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Tamil fiction"

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Clay, Talia. "Book of Christabelle: A Devil's Tail." NSUWorks, 2013. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/writing_etd/13.

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Books on the topic "Tamil fiction"

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Vī, Paccaiyappan̲ Ma. Tamil̲ nāvalkaḷil nan̲avōṭaik kōṭpāṭukaḷ =: Principles of stream of consciousness in Tamil novels. Aruvi Patippakam, 1992.

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Camuttiram, Cu. Trio: Modern Tamil stories. Writer's Workshop, 2002.

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Muttumun̲iyammāḷ, A. Tamil̲ nāvalkaḷil kālakkūr̲u kaiyāḷappaṭum mur̲ai =: Treatment of time technique in Tamil novels. Ti Pārkkar, 2005.

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Venugopal, Sababathy. Malaysian Tamil novels after independence. University of Malaya Press, 1996.

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Tamil̲ccelvam, Ciṅkai. Man̲aṅkavar malarkaḷ: Cir̲ukatait tokuppu. Tamil̲ccelvam, 2005.

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Caṅkam, Malēciyat Tamil̲ El̲uttāḷar, ed. Maṇpul̲ukkaḷ. Malēciyat Tamil̲ El̲uttāḷar Caṅkam, 2006.

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Aruṇācalam, Iravi. Kālam āki vanta katai. Viṭiyal Patippakam, 2003.

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1941-, Āl̲iyān̲ Ceṅkai, and Śrītaraciṅ Pū, eds. Īl̲attu mun̲n̲ōṭic cir̲ukataikaḷ: Īl̲attin̲ mun̲n̲ōṭip paṭaippāḷikaḷ irupattaintu pērin̲ cir̲ukataikaḷ, 1936-1950. Pūpālaciṅkam Patippakam, 2001.

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Ku, Periyatampi, and Irattin̲a Vēlōn̲ Ā 1958-, eds. Pulōliyūr collum kataikaḷ. Mīrā Patippakam, 2002.

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Matan̲. Vantārkaḷ, ven̲r̲ārkaḷ. 3rd ed. Vikaṭan̲ Veḷiyīṭu, 1994.

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Book chapters on the topic "Tamil fiction"

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Reddy, Rajesh. "A Tail for Two Theorists: The Problem of the Female Monster in Katherine Dunn’s Geek Love." In Creatural Fictions. Palgrave Macmillan US, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-51811-8_6.

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Miller, Brook. "Removing the Serpent’s Tail from Its Mouth: D. H. Lawrence’s Vision of Embodied Consciousness." In Self-Consciousness in Modern British Fiction. Palgrave Macmillan US, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137076656_5.

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Kačkutė, Eglė. "Orality/Aurality and Voice of the Voiceless Mother in Abla Farhoud’s Happiness Has a Slippery Tail." In Narratives of Motherhood and Mothering in Fiction and Life Writing. Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17211-3_5.

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AbstractThe problem of the representation of the mother’s voice and the maternal perspective in literary fiction has been a concern of contemporary scholarship in women’s writing for several decades. This chapter explores the literary representation of the voice and the perspective of a seemingly voiceless migrant mother who is silent in the language of the host country through the novel Happiness Has a Slippery Tail (1998) (Le bonheur a la queue glissante) by the Canadian Quebecois author of Lebanese origin, Abla Farhoud. This chapter demonstrates that in terms of literary representation of the mother’s voice, matrifocal migrant women’s writing relies on the orality of the mother’s voice to articulate the experience of mothering across the language barrier. It argues that the novel tells the story of a marginalised migrant mother in two voices: the aural voice of a marginalised mother who is voiceless in French and in writing (she is illiterate) and that of a French-educated writer daughter who understands the quality of the mother’s voice in Arabic. In this way the voice of the silent mother can be heard by the Western readership, and her perspective inscribed in the Western literary tradition.
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Mani, Preetha. "Literary and popular fiction in late colonial Tamil Nadu." In Indian Genre Fiction. Routledge India, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429456169-2.

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Subramanian, Rajesh. "Modern Tamil Writing." In Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism. Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781135000356-rem2117-1.

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Tamil literature, over the past two millennia, has been continuously evolving in its grammatical style, content, expressions, forms, structures, and themes. Modern Tamil writing can be considered to have begun in the mid-eighteenth century. Western cultural and literary theories had a significant impact on the content and form of Tamil writing during this phase. As time progressed into the nineteenth century, the western formats of novel and drama came to be adopted by literary writers. The latter decades of the twentieth century and the subsequent period witnessed a rapid explosion and growth of Tamil fiction. From ancient times, the verse/poetry form was the most commonly used, and indeed the only form in which literary works were composed. Great and lengthy religious texts, medical treatises, poetry of love and war, astrological works, and all other works were written in verse. Tamil ‘little magazines’ played a crucial role in the development of modern Tamil poetry. The verse form of literature dictated by strict grammatical rules gave way to liberal free format based structures. Themes and language also underwent major transformation in Tamil poetry during the twentieth century. After an initial period of experimental works, modern Tamil literature has matured since the 1970s. The role of major authors in shaping modern Tamil writing is discussed in brief.
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Whittington, Rebecca. "Transnational Tamil Literature, Dialect, and Environment." In The Oxford Handbook of Modern Indian Literatures. Oxford University Press, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197647912.013.37.

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Abstract This chapter aims to highlight the critical significance of socio-regional language varieties, which carry intimate knowledge of geographies, ecosystems, and environmental justice issues through habitation and livelihood, in transnational Tamil literatures with a focus on India and Sri Lanka. Dialect writing helps bridge the gaps between community-based and academic knowledges and between country- and area-based studies of texts in their historical and political contexts and broad studies of world literature, generating an approach to South Asian literary study that focuses on questions of language and environmental justice across national boundaries, yet remains rooted in local realities and imaginaries. The chapter thus offers a transnational approach that connects diverse geographical and political locations through local knowledges and practices of Adivasi/indigenous, migrant, refugee, and Dalit communities and of women, through readings of a small selection of fiction and poetry by V. Gowribalan, R. Canmukacuntaram, Bama, and Su. Tamilselvi.
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Geetha, V. "Writing and Being Modern." In The Oxford Handbook of Modern Indian Literatures. Oxford University Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197647912.013.5.

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Abstract This chapter examines the fictional universes of six women writers—two of them, Kruthika and Rajam Krishnan, are from the Brahmin communities of Tamil Nadu, while the rest, Hepsibai Jesudasan, Visalakshi, Tamizhselvi, and Sivakami, belong to what are today designated as backward and forward non-Brahmin castes and as Dalits. All writers engage with the “modern” moment in history, which interrupts the time and space of various social worlds in intersecting ways: through conversion to Christianity, a rejection of untouchability and caste, higher education, nationalism, progressive political and social movements, companionate marriage, and labor migration. Read together, these works of fiction constitute a complex archive of the “feminine” in modern Tamil Nadu, one that allows us to unpack the entangled realities of nation, caste, and family, especially their gendered and affective dimensions. This chapter points to the knowledge encoded in these lifeworlds, and equally to what cannot be—may not be—represented or narrated, except as a careless aside or uneasy afterthought. It suggests that these moments of narrative impasse have to do with caste and the manner it eludes representation.
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Bose, Mandakranta. "Postcolonial Identity as Feminist Fantasy A Study of Tamil Women’s Short Fiction on Dowry." In Faces of the Feminine in Ancient, Medieval, and Modern India. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195122299.003.0019.

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Abstract In Canada in 1996, an Indian man’s massacre of almost all of his ex-wife’s family in the British Columbia town of Kelowna was immediately misrepresented in the media as a fatal consequence of the Indian system of arranged marriages, so that the incident was portrayed as something other than family violence and as indicating an Indian cultural pathology. The Inda-Canadian community stepped in to correct this misrepresentation and argue that the perpetrator of violence was operating from within patriarchal ideologies common to most cultures, including those of the West. However, for the West, even feminist studies departments, Indian dowry culture continues to function as the vehicle for a Western imperialist epistemology of India as its Third World “other.” The Indian nation’s central meanings are deliberately and reductively quilted to the experiences of the Indian woman’s body to produce an India that is culturally retrogressive and, more particularly, to represent its culture in sexual metaphor as a masculinity that is always-already pathologically inadequate in its greed and brutal perversity and as always-already less than masculine. This discourse has entailed the West’s willful refusal to recognize Indian women’s response to the dowry system as intending subjects of resistance and also to misrecognize one aspect of Indian culture as the representative of the whole. This burden-the excessive meaning that the dowry system is made to bear as signifier-is also made possible by the West’s imaginary perception of the dowry system as present everywhere in India and in the self-same form; in actual fact, dowry practices occur in specific pockets of the country and involve different activities, sometimes generating meanings for women that are other than disempowerment. For instance, in some southern parts of India, as well as in the diaspora, women are given control over their dowry money, and it is not unheard of for them to use this money for additional education.
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Altshuler, Daniel. "A puzzle about narrative progression and causal reasoning." In The Language of Fiction. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198846376.003.0010.

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This chapter argues that key to an analysis of narrative progression are aspectual constraints imposed by coherence relations. This argument is based on a discourse like “A cat bit into a mouse while it was wiggling its tail. It was dead”. The fact that it’s infelicitous is remarkable given that the following is fine: “A mouse was dead. A cat bit into it while it was wiggling its tail”. The chapter explains these data in two steps. First, it proposes definitions for the coherence relations, RESULT and EXPLANATION, in which the former, but not the latter, rules out stative arguments. Second, it provides axioms in a default logic which predict the conditions under which these and competing coherence relations are typically inferred. It provides independent evidence for the proposed analysis from discourses involving exclamatives, temporal indexicals, and deverbals. It also considers discourses that challenge the analysis involving perspectival expressions.
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"Fantasies, fictions, myths, and denials about Tamil Tigers’ confessions." In The Use of Confessionary Evidence under the Counter-Terrorism Laws of Sri Lanka. Amsterdam University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1zxskds.8.

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