Forms of the Left in Postcolonial South Asia - Aesthetics, Networks and Connected Histories

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.>

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• Authors: Lotte Hoek, Sanjukta Sunderason
• Assisted by: Lotte Hoek (Editor), Hoek Lotte (Editor), Janaki Nair (Editor), Sanjukta Sunderason (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2023
• EAN: 9781350230088
• ISBN: 978-1-350-23008-8
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Critical Perspectives in South; Critical Perspectives in South Asian History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, Social & cultural history, ART / History / Contemporary (1945-), Political activism, Philosophy: aesthetics, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, Asian History, Indian sub-continent, South Asia (Indian sub-continent), c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General, Political activism / Political engagement, HISTORY / Asia / South / General