The Visceral Logics of Decolonization

Neetu Khanna (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

200 Seiten

2020
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-0817-0 (ISBN)

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In The Visceral Logics of Decolonization Neetu Khanna rethinks the project of decolonization by exploring a knotted set of relations between embodied experience and political feeling that she conceptualizes as the visceral. Khanna focuses on the work of the Progressive Writers' Association (PWA)-a Marxist anticolonial literary group active in India between the 1930s and 1950s-to show how anticolonial literature is a staging ground for exploring racialized emotion and revolutionary feeling. Among others, Khanna examines novels by Mulk Raj Anand, Ahmed Ali, and Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, as well as the feminist writing of Rashid Jahan and Ismat Chughtai, who each center the somatic life of the body as a fundamental site of colonial subjugation. In this way, decolonial action comes not solely from mental transformation, but from a reconstitution of the sensorial nodes of the body. The visceral, Khanna contends, therefore becomes a critical dimension of Marxist theories of revolutionary consciousness. In tracing the contours of the visceral's role in decolonial literature and politics, Khanna bridges affect and postcolonial theory in new and provocative ways.

Neetu Khanna is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California.

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction. The Visceral Logics of Decolonization 1
1. Agitation 35
2. Irritation 60
3. Compulsion 85
4. Evisceration 109
Coda. Explosion 132
Notes 151
Bibliography 161
Index 175

Erscheinungsdatum	02.01.2020
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	295 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4780-0817-2 / 1478008172
ISBN-13	978-1-4780-0817-0 / 9781478008170
Zustand	Neuware