Poetics of progressive feeling
The visceral aesthetics of Mulk Raj Anand
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2178958 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Neetu Khanna |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 449-461 |
| Publication date | 2015-07-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Postcolonial Writing (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1744-9855 • E-ISSN: 1744-9863 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17449855.2015.1050123 |
| OpenAlex | W1599503083 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 5 |
Mulk Raj Anand is perhaps best known for his pioneering roles in the development of the Indian English novel, and as a founding member of the Marxist anti-colonial movement, the All-India Progressive Writers’ Association, in the 1930s. Via an examination of an obscure and largely forgotten experimental Anand short story, Lament on a Death of A Master of Arts, this article revisits his most famous novel, Untouchable, through an emphasis on the poetics of touch and sensation. It argues that there lies, latent in Anand’s realist engagements with the emergent national consciousness, a particular aesthetic investment in the visceral sensibilities of the colonized subject. Foregrounding his participation in the Progressive Writers’ movement, it contends that the question of what would define realist literature as “progressive” for Anand and the Progressive Writers in a decolonizing India brings to light the group’s dynamic aesthetic grapplings with revolutionary feelings and the revolution of feeling
Aesthetics · Art · Colonialism · Consciousness · Feeling · Foregrounding · Lament · Literature · Marxist philosophy · Poetics · Poetry · Politics · Sociology · Subject (documents · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · South Asian Cinema and Culture · History · Law · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,3 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2019 (4) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |