Neetu Khanna

The Visceral Logics of Decolonization

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 298g
• ISBN-13: 9781478008170
• ISBN-10: 1478008172
• Artikelnr.: 57478555

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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