
Forms of the Left in Postcolonial South Asia
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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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Lotte Hoek is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Her ethnographic research is situated at the intersection of anthropology and film studies and explores the public and political life of the moving image in South Asia. She is the author of Cut-Pieces: Celluloid Obscenity and Popular Cinema in Bangladesh (2014).
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Introduction: Forms of the Left in Postcolonial South Asia
Lotte Hoek and Sanjukta Sunderason
Chapter 1
A Melancholic Archive: Chittaprosad and Socialist Art in Postcolonial India
Sanjukta Sunderason
Chapter 2
Kagmari Festival, 1957: Political Aesthetics and Subaltern Internationalism in Pakistan
Layli Uddin
Chapter 3
Between Neorealism and Humanism: Jago Hua Savera
Iftikhar Dadi
Chapter 4
Lotus Roots: Transposing a Political-Aesthetic Agenda from South Asia to Afro-Asia
Maia Ramnath
Chapter 5
What got "left" behind: The limits of Leftist Engagements with Art and Culture in Post-colonial Sri Lanka
Harshana Rambukwella
Chapter 6
The Conscience Whipper: Alamgir Kabir's Film Criticism and the Political Velocity of the Cinema in 1960s East Pakistan
Lotte Hoek
Chapter 7 Look Back in Angst: Akaler Sandhaney, the Indian New Wave, and the Afterlife of the IPTA Movement Manishita Dass
Afterword, Kamran Asdar Ali
Bibliography
Index
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