Love and Revolution in the Twentieth-Century Colonial and Postcolonial World
Perspectives from South Asia and Southern Africa
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This book addresses emancipatory narratives from two main sites in the colonial world, the Indian and southern African subcontinents. Exploring how love and revolution interrelate, this volume is unique in drawing on theories of affect to interrogate histories of the political, thus linking love and revolution together. The chapters engage with the affinities of those who live with their colonial pasts: crises of expectations, colonial national convulsions, memories of anti-colonial solidarity, even shared radical libraries. It calls attention to the specific and singular way in which notions of ‘love of the world’ were born in a precise moment of anti-colonial struggle: a love of the world for which one would offer one’s life, and for which there had been little precedent in the history of earlier revolutions. It thus offers new ways of understanding the shifts in global traditions of emancipation over two centuries.
G. Arunima is Professor in theCentre for Women’s Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. She has researched and published on both historical and modern contexts in India, focusing particularly on cultural, visual and material texts, and rethinking the politics of the contemporary.
Patricia Hayes is a National Research Foundation and South African Research Chair of Visual History and Theory at the Centre for Humanities Research at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. She has published extensively on history and colonial and documentary photography in southern Africa.
Premesh Lalu is Convenor of the Communicating the Humanities project at the Centre for Humanities Research at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. As one of the founding directors of the Centre for Humanities Research, he has raised the profile of the humanities both in the university and nationally. His publications address colonial archives, violence, and more recently, aesthetics and the technical becoming of the human.
This book addresses emancipatory narratives from two main sites in the colonial world, the Indian and southern African subcontinents. Exploring how love and revolution interrelate, this volume is unique in drawing on theories of affect to interrogate histories of the political, thus linking love and revolution together. The chapters engage with the affinities of those who live with their colonial pasts: crises of expectations, colonial national convulsions, memories of anti-colonial solidarity, even shared radical libraries. It calls attention to the specific and singular way in which notions of ‘love of the world’ were born in a precise moment of anti-colonial struggle: a love of the world for which one would offer one’s life, and for which there had been little precedent in the history of earlier revolutions. It thus offers new ways of understanding the shifts in global traditions of emancipation over two centuries.
Offers new ways of understanding the shifts in global traditions of emancipation over two centuries. Takes a unique approach, using affect theories to interrogate political histories. Chapters explore how love enables nationalism but also how these feelings became sources of disappointment after the birth of the nation
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G. Arunima
Themen in »Love and Revolution in the Twentieth-Century Colonial and Postcolonial World«
Emancipation Decolonisation Anti-colonialism Anti-capitalism Affect theory Colonial legacy Solidarity Nationalism Birth of the nation History of emotions Intimacy Asia
Stimmen zu »Love and Revolution in the Twentieth-Century Colonial and Postcolonial World«
"This book brings love to a history of social movements … and contributing to sociological discussions of emotion in political movements. … The rich case studies … offer much to think with that will satisfy readers looking both for histories of emotion and for possibilities for decolonial futures. … the intersection of histories of emotion with South Asian and African histories offers a welcome addition to a growing history of global feelings.” (Katie Barclay, Emotions: History, Culture, Society, Vol. 6 (1), 2022)
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