The Light of Knowledge. Literacy Activism and the Politics of Writing in South India.
Ithaca. Cornell University Press. 2013. Stock ID #176899 "Since the early 1990s hundreds of thousands of Tamil villagers in southern India have participated in literacy lessons, science demonstrations, and other events designed to transform them into active citizens with access to state power. These efforts to spread enlightenment among the oppressed are part of a movement known as the Arivoli Iyakkam (the Enlightenment Movement), considered to be among the most successful mass literacy movements in recent history. When referring to this item please quote stockid 176899.
Maps, black and white illustrations, 250pp. Notes, bibliography, index, very good paperback copy.
In The Light of Knowledge, Francis Cody's ethnography of the Arivoli Iyakkam highlights the paradoxes inherent in such movements that seek to emancipate people through literacy when literacy is a power-laden social practice in its own right." (Publisher's description).
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