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This dissertation, Insurgent Imaginations: Culture, Postcolonial Planetarity and Maoism in India, provides the first book-length study of the literary and cultural representations of the Maoist Naxalite movement in India. I highlight the centrality of literary and cultural texts, and their attendant questions of form and genre in negotiating planetary imaginaries of solidarity. The dissertation illuminates the wide-ranging political and cultural networks that came to inform Naxalism -- such as early 20th century internationalist autobiography and autobiographical fiction of M.N. Roy and Claude McKay; post-1950s New Left conversations on urbanity in the Global North and South; cross-cultural aesthetic interactions involving indigenous South Asian prose and theatrical forms (naksha and jatra), 1960s pan-Africanist Black Power and Black Arts movements in the US, African decolonization, Latin American Third-Cinema and contemporary South Asian Anglophone fiction. I draw on a number of key representations of the Naxalites across a broad spectrum of cultural forms (novels, plays, film, satire, and autobiography), by globally-known Anglophone authors such as Aravind Adiga and Arundhati Roy

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Author

Auritro Majumder

Publisher

Syracuse University

Published

2014

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction