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Title Love and revolution in the twentieth-century colonial and postcolonial world : perspectives from South Asia and Southern Africa / G. Arunima, Patricia Hayes, Premesh Lalu, editors
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, an imprint of Springer, [2021]
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Series Palgrave studies in the history of social movements
Palgrave studies in the history of social movements.
Contents Chapter 1. Love and Revolution: An Introduction; G. Arunima, Patricia Hayes and Premesh Lalu -- Part I. Intensities: Writing / Aesthetic / Cinematic -- Chapter 2. "Everything built on moonshine" : Love and Revolution in Iqbals Islamic Modernist Poetry and Faizs Socialist Verse; Javed Majeed -- Chapter 3. Sadness, as such ... ; Premesh Lalu -- Chapter 4. Mapiko: Fragments of Revolutionary Time; Paolo Israel -- Part II. Depletions: Family / Party / Intimacy -- Chapter 5. Caste, Intimacy and Family: The Experiences of Slave Castes in Kerala; Sanal Mohan -- Chapter 6. Making and Challenging a Biographic Order: National Longing, Political Belonging and the Politics of Affect in a South African Liberation Movement; Ciraj Rassool -- Chapter 7. The Family Romance of the South African Revolution; Jon Soske -- Chapter 8: The Romantic Manifesto: Gender and Outlaw Emotions in the Naxalbari Movement; Mallarika Sinha Roy -- Part III. Love / Sacrifice / Law -- Chapter 9. Bhagat Singh: Sacrifice, Suffering and the Tradition of the Oppressed; Simona Sawhney -- Chapter 10. "Love is Stronger in Prison than Outside": The Intimate Politics of Independence in the Congo; Pedro Monaville -- Chapter 11. Political Funerals in South Africa: Photography, History, and the Refusal of Light (1960s80s); Patricia Hayes -- Chapter 12. The Love Commandment: Affect in the Time of Dissent and Democracy; G. Arunima
Summary This book addresses emancipatory narratives from two main sites in the colonial world, the Indian and southern African subcontinents. Exploring how love and revolution interrelate, this volume is unique in drawing on theories of affect to interrogate histories of the political, thus linking love and revolution together. The chapters engage with the affinities of those who live with their colonial pasts: crises of expectations, colonial national convulsions, memories of anti-colonial solidarity, even shared radical libraries. It calls attention to the specific and singular way in which notions of love of the world were born in a precise moment of anti-colonial struggle: a love of the world for which one would offer ones life, and for which there had been little precedent in the history of earlier revolutions. It thus offers new ways of understanding the shifts in global traditions of emancipation over two centuries. G. Arunima is Professor in the Centre for Womens Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. She has researched and published on both historical and modern contexts in India, focusing particularly on cultural, visual and material texts, and rethinking the politics of the contemporary. Patricia Hayes is a National Research Foundation and South African Research Chair of Visual History and Theory at the Centre for Humanities Research at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. She has published extensively on history and colonial and documentary photography in southern Africa. Premesh Lalu is Convenor of the Communicating the Humanities project at the Centre for Humanities Research at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. As one of the founding directors of the Centre for Humanities Research, he has raised the profile of the humanities both in the university and nationally. His publications address colonial archives, violence, and more recently, aesthetics and the technical becoming of the human
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 04, 2021)
Subject Revolutions -- South Asia -- History -- 20th century
Revolutions -- Africa, Southern -- History -- 20th century
Love -- South Asia -- History -- 20th century
Love -- Africa, Southern -- History -- 20th century
Social movements -- South Asia -- History -- 20th century
Social movements -- Africa, Southern -- History -- 20th century
Postcolonialism -- South Asia -- History -- 20th century
Postcolonialism -- Africa, Southern -- History -- 20th century
Imperialism.
Imperialism
Love
Postcolonialism
Revolutions
Social movements
South Asia
Southern Africa
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Arunima, G., editor
Hayes, Patricia, editor.
Lalu, Premesh, editor.
ISBN 3030795802
9783030795801