![]() Its central theme is the swindling and humiliation of an educated brahman by a beautiful courtesan and her mother-bawd, presented through vivid descriptions and speeches, couched in colloquial language and brimming with humor. The VVT is one of the pirapantam poetic genres that flourished in Tamil literature of the 17th to 19th centuries under the patronage of rulers and officials in South Indian principalities. ![]() Indira V.Peterson March 2016 Abstract for a forthcoming Festschrift paper (2016)*, “The Courtesan’s Arts in the Tamil viṟaliviṭutūtu Poetic Genre:Translations from Kūlappanāyakkaṉ viṟaliviṭutūtu” In this paper I present selected translations from Tamil poems in the viṟaliviṭutūtu (VVT, Message borne by the viṟali singer) genre.
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