Forms of the Left in Postcolonial South Asia : Aesthetics, Networks and Connected Histories (Hardcover)

Introduction: Forms of the Left, Sanjukta Sunderason & Lotte Hoek (Leiden University, Netherlands, and University of Edinburgh, UK) 1. What is Left: Socialist Art in Nehruvian Times, Sanjukta Sunderason (Leiden University, Netherlands) 2. Lotus Roots: Transposing a Political-Aesthetic Agenda from South Asia to Afro-Asia, Maia Ramanath (Penn State College of the Liberal Arts, USA) 3. Neorealist strategies in Jago Hua Savera, Iftikhar Dadi (Cornell University, USA) 4. Political Velocities: Alamgir Kabir and the Force of the Moving Image in 1960s East Pakistan, Lotte Hoek (University of Edinburgh, UK) 5. Ambiguous encounters: Limits of Leftist engagements with art and culture in post-colonial Sri Lanka, Harshana Rambukwella (Postgraduate Institute of English, Open University of Sri Lanka) 6. Akaler Shondaney: In Search of the Famine of 1943, Manishita Dass (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK) 7. Epilogue: Radical Theatre Activism in 1980s Karachi, Kamran Asdar Ali (University of Texas, USA)