TY - BOOK AU - Cody,Francis ED - Project Muse. TI - The Light of Knowledge: Literacy Activism and the Politics of Writing in South India T2 - Expertise, cultures and technologies of knowledge SN - 9780801469022 AV - LC157.I52 C63 2013 U1 - 379.2/4095482 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Ithaca PB - Cornell University Press KW - Arivoḷi (Organization : Tamil Nadu, India) KW - Literacy KW - Political aspects KW - India KW - Tamil Nadu KW - Literacy programs KW - Tamil Nadu (India) KW - Rural conditions KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-240) and index; Introduction : of light, literacy, and knowledge in the Tamil countryside -- On being a "thumbprint" : time and space in Arivoli activism -- Feminizing enlightenment : the social and reciprocal agency -- Labors of objectification : words and worlds of pedagogy -- Search for a method : the media of enlightenment -- Subject to citizenship : petitions and the performativity of signature -- Epilogue : reflections on a time of charismatic enlightenment UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/43595/ ER -