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Over the last ten years, a number of new voices have burst on the scene of
Tamil feminist and women’s literature. The work of Salma, Kutty Revathi,
Malathi Maitri, Sukirtharani, Leena Manimekalai and others has been
received with both rave reviews and male chauvinist condescension. The
present paper examines this new body of writing, its larger location within
discourses on Tamil cultural politics, the social locale of contemporary Tamil
women writers and the question of how this new writing relates to literary
and wider cultural traditions.
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D R S A S C H A E B E L I N G ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF TAMIL & SOUTH ASIAN STUDIES, DEPARTMENT OF SOUTH ASIAN LANGUAGES & CIVILIZATIONS,
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, USA
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M A L A Y S T U D I E S S E M I N A R R O O M
S H A W F O U N D A T I O N B U I L D I N G
K E N T R I D G E C A M P U S N A T I O N A L
U N I V E R S I T Y O F S I N G A P O R E
Sascha Ebeling is an Assistant Professor of Tamil and South Indian Studies in the
Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago.
Before coming to Chicago, he taught at the Institute of Indology and Tamil Studies at the
University of Cologne, Germany, from which he also holds a PhD in Tamil literature. He is
the author of Colonizing the Realm of Words: The Transformation of Tamil Literature in
Nineteenth‐Century South India (State University of New York Press, 2010) and various
essays on pre‐modern and modern Tamil literature. He is currently writing a book on
contemporary Tamil literature from a global perspective.