Malayalam literature
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M.T. Vasudevan Nair (b.1933) popularly known as MT, is a versatile writer, who has contributed immensely to different genres of Malayalam prose, including novels, short fiction, screenplays, memoirs and essays. He is one of the most widely read Malayalam novelists with numerous all-time best-…
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Veerankutty is a contemporary environment poet. He is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Malayalam at Government College, Madapally. As a writer, he has published several anthologies of poems and children’s fiction. His poetry collections include titles such as Jhala Bhoopatam,…
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Ammayennammakum achanennachanumPerennu kunjimon othidumbolArtham athinetrayennarinjeeduvanPusthakajnaniyam njan ashakthan.[i]
Mother’s name “mother,” father’s name “father,”Mouths the dear young boy
Though erudite, I have no measure
Of its meanings manifold.
Kunjunni’s—renowned (children’s) poet in…
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In the beginning there were words!
The repository of children’s literature in Kerala in the written form can claim a history of only less than two hundred years, going by mainstream literary histories. But, any such attempt to pin down the origin of this new genre of literature in any language, not…
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This module critically explores normative representations of childhoods in children’s texts, with particular reference to the South Indian state of Kerala. The representations in the children’s texts, in any society at any given time and space, serve the purpose of pedagogic textual productions…
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