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![Extraordinary Child: Poems from a South Indian Devotional Genre by Paula Richman](https://558130.bdp32.group/rails/active_storage/representations/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBBK2VwMEE9PSIsImV4cCI6bnVsbCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--22e1a61605113e6e0eec388c571c9175c0eb9943/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaDdCem9MWm05eWJXRjBTU0lJYW5CbkJqb0dSVlE2RkhKbGMybDZaVjkwYjE5c2FXMXBkRnNIYVFJc0FXa0M5QUU9IiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJ2YXJpYXRpb24ifX0=--038335c90cf75c275ae4d36968ac417dc4a0a3e3/Extraordinary%20Child-%20Poems%20from%20a%20South%20Indian%20Devotional%20Genre.jpg)
297 pages • missing pub info (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780824810634
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Publication date: 01 October 1997
Description
For hundreds of years Tamil poets have been composing devotional texts in which they adopt the voice of a mother and address praises to an extraordinary child. The poems, called pillaittamil (literally Tamil for a child), form a major genre of Tam...
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297 pages • missing pub info (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780824810634
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Publication date: 01 October 1997
Description
For hundreds of years Tamil poets have been composing devotional texts in which they adopt the voice of a mother and address praises to an extraordinary child. The poems, called pillaittamil (literally Tamil for a child), form a major genre of Tam...