The light of knowledge: literacy activism and the politics of writing in South India
In: Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge Ser
In: Expertise : Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge
The Light of Knowledge -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Note on Transliteration -- Introduction: Of Light, Literacy, and Knowledge in the Tamil Countryside -- 1. On Being a "Thumbprint": Time and Space in Arivoli Activism -- 2. Feminizing Enlightenment: The Social and Reciprocal Agency -- 3. Labors of Objectification: Words and Worlds of Pedagogy -- 4. Search for a Method: The Media of Enlightenment -- 5. Subject to Citizenship: Petitions and the Performativity of Signature -- Epilogue: Reflections on a Time of Charismatic Enlightenment -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.