Forms of the left in postcolonial South Asia : aesthetics, networks and connected histories / edited by Sanjukta Sunderason and Lotte Hoek.

Contributor(s): Sunderason, Sanjukta [editor.] | Hoek, Lotte [editor.].

Material type: Text

Text Language of document:EnglishSeries: Critical perspectives in South Asian history.Publisher: 2021Description: viii, 300p. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 9789354352058.Subject(s): Aesthetics -- Political aspects -- South Asia | Aesthetics, Modern -- 20th century | Arts -- Political aspects -- South Asia -- History -- 20th century | Arts and society -- South Asia -- History -- 20th century | Right and left (Political science) in artDDC classification: 111.850954 Su724 Fo

Contents:

A Melancholic Archive: Chittaprosad and Socialist Art in Postcolonial India / Sanjukta Sunderason -- Kagmari Festival, 1957: Political Aesthetics and Subaltern Internationalism in Pakistan / Layli Uddin -- Between Neorealism and Humanism: Jago Hua Savera / Iftikhar Dadi -- Lotus Roots: Transposing a Political-Aesthetic Agenda from South Asia to Afro-Asia / Maia Ramnath -- What got "left" behind: The limits of Leftist Engagements with Art and Culture in Post-colonial Sri Lanka / Harshana Rambukwella -- The Conscience Whipper: Alamgir Kabir's Film Criticism and the Political Velocity of the Cinema in 1960s East Pakistan / Lotte Hoek -- Look Back in Angst: Akaler Sandhaney, the Indian New Wave, and the Afterlife of the IPTA Movement / Manishita Dass -- Afterword / Kamran Asdar Ali.

Summary: "This book explores aesthetic forms of the left to negotiate the political frontiers of post-colonial, post-partition South Asia. Spanning India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Bangladesh, the contributors study art, film and literature to illuminate interconnections across regions and countries, and discuss the shifting political contours of the region during the latter half of the 20th century. With a clear focus and conceptualization this volume raises two key questions; how left-wing art generated cultural and social formations, and how aesthetic forms held political value across the region. Reframing political aesthetics within a postcolonial and decolonised framework, it traces the trajectories and nuances the left-wing cultural movement took during decolonization, and focuses on connections and continuities across post-1947 India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Following the evolution of progressive culture in the 1950s and 60s, networks of leftist filmmakers and theatre activists in postcolonial Pakistan, and the changing fate of left cultural politics in Sri Lanka and India during the 1970s, this book looks to reinvigorate the entangled histories of the left cultural movement in post-partition South Asia"-- Provided by publisher.

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"This book explores aesthetic forms of the left to negotiate the political frontiers of post-colonial, post-partition South Asia. Spanning India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Bangladesh, the contributors study art, film and literature to illuminate interconnections across regions and countries, and discuss the shifting political contours of the region during the latter half of the 20th century. With a clear focus and conceptualization this volume raises two key questions; how left-wing art generated cultural and social formations, and how aesthetic forms held political value across the region. Reframing political aesthetics within a postcolonial and decolonised framework, it traces the trajectories and nuances the left-wing cultural movement took during decolonization, and focuses on connections and continuities across post-1947 India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Following the evolution of progressive culture in the 1950s and 60s, networks of leftist filmmakers and theatre activists in postcolonial Pakistan, and the changing fate of left cultural politics in Sri Lanka and India during the 1970s, this book looks to reinvigorate the entangled histories of the left cultural movement in post-partition South Asia"-- Provided by publisher.

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