Literature and Politics in the Age of Nationalism: The Progressive Episode in South Asia, 1932-56 - Hardcover
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This book aims to provide a historical account of the All-India Progressive Writers' Association (AIPWA). In a structured narrative, it focuses on the political processes inside India, events and circumstances in South Asia and the debates and literary movements in Europe and the United States to demonstrate how the literary project was specifically informed by literary-political movements. It explores the theorisation of literature and politics that informed progressive writing and argues that the progressive conception of literature, art and politics was closer to the theorisation of two thinkers of whom the writers themselves knew very little - Leon Trotsky and Antonio Gramsci.
Talat Ahmed teaches at the Department of History, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK and is also a member of the British Association for South Asian Studies and the Royal Asiatic Society, London. Her current research is focused on intellectual and cultural history of modern South Asia and radical literary and cultural projects in twentieth-century South Asia. She has published articles and reviews in a number of academic journals and other publications across the world.
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