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Marxist Influences and South Asian Literature
Author: The Novels of Mulk Raj Anand
Author: Manmohan Krishna BhatnagarPublisher: Atlantic Publishers & Dist
ISBN: 9788171569342
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Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Mulk Raj Anand Is One Of The Best Known Novelists In English In India. Translated Into Many Languages In India As Well As Abroad, He Has Been Universally Acclaimed As A Progressive Writer.The Present Anthology Of Recent Critical Essays Probes Into His Internationally Reputed Novels Like Untouchable, Coolie, Gauri As Well As His Various Collections Of Short Stories. The Critical Perspective Is Fresh And Innovative, Embracing The Latest Critical Theories And Schools. The Essays Come Up With Novel Insights Into Themes And Characters, Form And Design In The Texts Explored.The Structural And Rhetorical Devices Employed In The Texts Have Also Been Analysed Threadbare. A Detailed Interview With Anand Facilitates A Peep Into The Writer S Workshop, Revealing Hitherto Unexplored Facets Of Anand S Artistic Persona.A Welcome Addition To Fiction Studies. An Indispensable Collection Of Articles For Students, Teachers And Researchers In Literary Theory, Fiction, Indian English Literature, Sociology Of Literature And Progressivism.
Marxist Thought in South Asia
Author: Kristin PlysPublisher: Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN: 1837971846
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
Forging an anti-imperialist Marxism through dialectical and historical approaches, this volume of Political Power and Social Theory demonstrates how the South Asian facet of this revolutionary tradition can contribute to and even reenergize global Marxist theory.
Resources in Education
Author: Forms of the Left in Postcolonial South Asia
Author: Sanjukta SunderasonPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350179183
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
This book explores the aesthetic forms of the political left across the borders of post-colonial, post-partition South Asia. Spanning India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Bangladesh, the contributors study art, film, literature, poetry and cultural discourse to illuminate the ways in which political commitment has been given aesthetic form and artistic value by artists and by cultural and political activists in postcolonial South Asia. With a focused conceptualization this volume asks: Does the political left in South Asia have a recognizable aesthetic form? And if so, what political effects do left-wing artistic movements and aesthetic artefacts have in shaping movements against inequality and injustice? Reframing political aesthetics within a postcolonial and decolonised framework, the contributors detail the trajectories and transformations of left-wing cultural formations and affiliations and focus on connections and continuities across post-1947/8 India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.
The Popular Front and the Global Circulation of Marxism through Calcutta, 1920s-1970s
Author: Prasanta DharPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031186176
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
This book examines the global circulation of Marxism seen from one of its most highly charged sites: Calcutta in India. Building on but also revising existing approaches to global intellectual history, the book presents the circulation of Marxism through Calcutta as a historically-sited problem of mass mediation. Using tools from media studies, the book explores the way that Marxism was presented to the public, the technologies used, and the meanings of Marxism in twentieth-century Calcutta. Demonstrating how the Popular Front was split between the so-called 'people's group' and those whom were called 'intellectuals', the book argues that the people's group generally identified themselves as Marxists and preferred audio-visual media such as theatre, while the so-called intellectuals privileged academic rigour and print media, usually referring to themselves as Marxians. Thus, the author reveals a polyphony of Marxisms in the Popular Front. Tracing Marxism back to the Bengal Renaissance and the Swadeshi and Naxal movements, this book shows how debate around the meaning of 'Marxism' continued throughout the 1970s in Calcutta, and eventually engendered the historiographical movement that has come to be known as Subaltern Studies.
South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858 - 1947
Author: Rehana AhmedPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1441117563
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
An alternative view of imperial history, exploring the pioneering ways in which South Asians within Britain engaged in radical discourse and political activism.
Comintern Aesthetics
Author: Amelia M. GlaserPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487504659
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Comintern Aesthetics shows how the cultural and political networks emerging from the Comintern have continued, even after its demise in 1943.
Marxist Influences and South Asian Literature
Author: Carlo CoppolaPublisher:
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Secularism and the Crisis of Minority Identity in Postcolonial Literature
Author: Roger McNamaraPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1498548946
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
Secularism and the Crisis of Minority Identity in Postcolonial Literature examines how writers from religious and ethnic minority communities (Anglo-Indians, Burghers, Dalits, Muslims, and Parsis) in India and Sri Lanka engage secularism through novels, short stories, and autobiographies. Given the rise of Hindu nationalism in India and Sinhala-Buddhist nationalism in Sri Lanka, it would seem obvious that minorities would rally around secularism (the separation of church and state). However, this bookargues that the relationship between minorities and secularism is extremely ambivalent. On the one hand, it shows how writers belonging to oppressed communities can deploy secularism as a mode of critique (secular criticism) to challenge the ideologies of dominant groups—the nation, upper-castes, and religious hierarchies. On the other hand, it examines how these writers reveal that other aspects of secularism (secularization and secular time) are responsible for creating essentialized identities that have not only exacerbated relationships between majorities and minorities and between minority groups, but have also created tension within minority groups themselves. Turing to aesthetics and religious faith, these writers attempt to undermine secular social and cultural structures that are responsible for this crisis of minority identity.
