Pothik Ghosh

Insurgent Metaphors

Essays on Culture and Class

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Produktbeschreibung

The 13 essays that comprise this book are envisaged as a small attempt from South Asia - where communitarian postcolonialism and 'Marxist' culturalism constitute the most respectable trend in radical theory - to bring back class and class action to discussion on culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. August 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 281g
• ISBN-13: 9781032365534
• ISBN-10: 1032365536
• Artikelnr.: 71236747

Autorenporträt

Pothik Ghosh was educated as a professional journalist in Calcutta, Lucknow and Delhi. Active with various Left groups, he is currently based in Delhi and is one of the editors of Radical Notes. His monograph, Loss as Resistance: Towards a Hermeneutic of Revolution, has also been published by Aakar as part of the Radical Notes booklet series.

Inhaltsangabe

1. In Search of Class 2. Fascism and a Marxist Praxis of Art 3. Academics,
Politics and Class Struggle 4. The Siren Songs of Neo-traditionalism 5.
Akhtaruzzaman Elias: Beyond the Lived Time of Nationhood 6. Kafka and the
Question of Revolutionary Subjectivity 7. Media and the Indian State: On
the Draft Broadcasting Services Regulation Bill, 2006 8. The Blind Art of
the Concrete 9. In Defence of Hamas 10. Sri Lanka: Genocide and Other
Majoritarian Falsehoods 11. Fascism in its Liberal Womb 12. Lalgarh beyond
Maoism, Maoism beyond Lalgarh 13. Three Fragmentary Theses on the
Politico-theoretical Problematic posed by the Current Phase of the Indian
Maoist Movement for Working Class Politics