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The visceral logics of decolonization / (Record no. 637834)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781478007739
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-- acid-free paper)
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781478008170
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-- acid-free paper)
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Original cataloging agency DLC
Language of cataloging eng
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Description conventions rda
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082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 891.4
Edition information 23
092 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED DEWEY CALL NUMBER (OCLC)
Classification number 891.4 KHA
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Khanna, Neetu,
Dates associated with a name 1980-
Relator term author.
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The visceral logics of decolonization /
Statement of responsibility, etc. Neetu Khanna.
264 ## - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture Durham ;
-- London :
Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer Duke University Press,
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice 2020.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xii, 183 p. ;
Dimensions 24 cm.
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc. note Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-174) and index.
505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Introduction: The visceral logics of decolonization -- Agitation -- Irritation -- Compulsion -- Evisceration -- Coda: Explosion.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. "The visceral logics of decolonization offers a question that shapes Khanna's primary decolonial intervention in this book: "What would it mean to undo the visceral lessons of colonialism in the habits of mind and emotive reflex of the postcolonial subject?" For Neetu Khanna the a nswers to this question are lodged within the artistic renderings of th e Progressive Writer's Association, an anti-colonial, anti-orthodox Mus lim writer's collective. Drawing on the work of Fanon, as well as queer and feminist theory, Khanna thinks through how affect circulates withi n anti-colonial struggle. Using the archives of Indian Marxist movement s between the 1930s and the 1960s, Khanna theorizes the concept of "the visceral" as an embodied habit and feeling that emerges at the junctur e of colonialism and nationalist movement. She argues that this affecti ve corporeality shapes utopic visions of freedom for the gendered, colo nial, Indian, citizen subject as they are imagined in the artistic expe rimentation of Indian progressive political movements. In chapter 1, Kh anna begins describing the visceral inquiries of the book to explore th e form and phenomenology of nationalist emotion as it emerges in Indian struggles for decolonization. Khanna locates the somatic unconscious i n the tensed musculature of the politically agitated revolutionary subj ect and sets up this framework that is used throughout the rest of the book. Chapter 2 brings into focus the revolutionary promise of "the vis ceral" within the internationalist imaginary, which makes possible the transformation of feeling and consciousness. The female body comes into focus in chapter 3, highlighting how women's bodies become the focal o bjects of violent subjection by both colonial and anti-colonial nationa list regimes of discipline. Khanna discusses writer Ahmed Ali and The A ll-India Progressive Writers Association in chapter 4, and shows how vi sceral eruptions propel the engine of the national teleology of the pro gressive novel moving through mourning, grief, nostalgia, melancholy, a nd lamentation - necessary elements for revolutionary transformation. T he book ends with a chapter about Fanon, returning to the anti-colonial theories of the most canonized figure in postcolonial studies and stud ies of decolonization through the alternative genealogy of the visceral opened up by the Progressive Writers movement. This book will be of in terest to scholars in South Asian studies, post-colonial theory, and hi story"--
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610 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME
Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element All-India Progressive Writers Association
General subdivision History.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Indic literature
Chronological subdivision 20th century
General subdivision History and criticism.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Politics and literature.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Feminism and literature.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Literary movements
Geographic subdivision India
General subdivision History.
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     CHUSS- Arts Library CHUSS- Arts Library 14/06/2025   891.4 KHA 001280847 14/06/2025 14/06/2025 Books - Open Access