The Bloomsbury Handbook of Postcolonial Print Cultures (Bloomsbury Handbooks)

The texts that make up postcolonial print cultures are often found outside the archival catalogue, and in lesser-examined repositories such as personal collections, the streets, or appendages to established collections. This volume examines the published and unpublished writing, magazines, pamphlets, paratexts, advertisements, cartoons, radio, and street art that serve as the intellectual forces behind opposition to colonial orders, as meditations on the futures of embryonic nation states, and as visions of new forms of equality. The print cultures examined here are necessarily anti-institutional; they serve as a counterpoint to the colonial archive and, relatedly, to more traditional genres and text formats coming out of large-scale publishers. This means that much of the primary material analyzed in this book has not been scrutinized before. Many of these print productions articulate collective liberation projects with origins in the grassroots. They include debates around the shape of the postcolonial nation and the new state formation that necessarily draw on a diverse and contentious public sphere of opinion. Their rhetoric ranges from the reformist to the revolutionary. Reflecting the diversity, indeed the disorderliness, of postcolonial print cultures this book covers local, national, and transnational cultures from Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas. Its wide-ranging essays offer a nuanced and, taken together, a definitive (though that is not to say comprehensive or systematic) study of a global phenomenon: postcolonial print cultures as a distinct literary field. The chapters recover the efforts of writers, readers and publishers to produce a postcolonialism 'from below', and thereby offer a range of fresh perspectives on the meaning and history of postcolonialism. Cover Halftitle page Title page Copyright page CONTENTS ILLUSTRATIONS CONTRIBUTORS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Introduction PART ONE Newspapers, magazines and periodicals CHAPTER ONE Communism, Congress and the early Cold War INTRODUCTION MIDDLEBROW RESPONSE TO THE RAILWAY STRIKES OF 1949 THE POLITICAL VIS-À-VIS THE LITERARY CONSTITUTING READERSHIPS: SOME CONCLUSIONS CHAPTER TWO Postcolonial little magazines in India DIALOGICAL MODERNISMS ANTI-ESTABLISHMENT CONSPIRACIES: ‘ EVERYTHING JUSTIFIED EXCEPT THE MARGINS ’ TRANSNATIONAL TRAFFICS, FRIENDSHIPS AND ASYMMETRIES THE ‘STREET-FIGHTING’ YEARS: LITTLE MAGAZINES AND THE STRUGGLES OUTSIDE CONCLUSION CHAPTER THREE A people’s literature of Palestine/Israel ZIONISM’S OUTLAWS AND OUTLIERS REMOVING THE THICK-LENSED GLASSES OF ZIONISM: ANTI-ZIONIST ‘ISRAELI STORIES’ LITERATURE AS HISTORY AND SOCIAL TEXT CONCLUSION CHAPTER FOUR A magazine for everyone INTRODUCTION RE-ORIENTING ENGLISH ENGLISH AND THE BHASHAS TRANSLATIONS AND NATION-BUILDING ADVERTISEMENTS: ASPIRATIONS AND COGNITIVE DISSONANCE COMPETING INTERNATIONALISMS CONCLUSIONS CHAPTER FIVE The politics of theprinted page PERIODICALS AUTHORSHIP READERS AND READING NETWORKS OF SOLIDARITY RELIGION AND TEXTUAL AUTHORITY METHODOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS CHAPTER SIX The print cultural formation of the Bhoodan Movement SOCIAL MOVEMENT AND PRINT CULTURE IN INDIA MEMOIRS, HAGIOGRAPHIES AND BIOGRAPHIES THE ETHICISM OF BHOODAN IN PRINT PLANNING, GOVERNANCE AND BHOODAN BHOODAN IN DALIT WRITING CONCLUSION PART TWO Publishing, editing and textual production CHAPTER SEVEN Reading OkadaBooks READING AND WRITING IN THE INFORMAL SECTOR OKADABOOKS AND HUMANITARIAN INNOVATION CONCLUSION CHAPTER EIGHT A commune of letters; or, anthologizing Afro-Asian poetry ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS CHAPTER NINE ‘The most secret memory of men’ BETWEEN THE ‘INTERNATIONAL LITERARY FIELD’ AND POSTCOLONIAL PRINT CULTURE BOLAÑO AND MBOUGAR SARR: LOST LITERATURE AND THE CRITIQUE, THE READERS AND THE WORK LOST LITERATURE AND BOLAÑO: THE WORK LOST LITERATURE AND BOLAÑO: THE READERS LOST LITERATURE AND BOLAÑO: THE CRITICAND THE CRITIQUE CHAPTER TEN The Emperor, the intellectuals and the press INTRODUCTION A TIGHTLY CONTROLLED CULTURAL ARENA PUNISHING DISSENT BYPASSING CENSORSHIP ENGINEERING CONSENT THE LEGACY A PARTIAL REASSESSMENT? CHAPTER ELEVEN Censorship, disaffection and the imperial public sphere TONE POLICING AND THE POLITICS OF AFFECT PRINT MIMICRY AND THE TACTICS OF SLY CIVILITY ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS CHAPTER TWELVE Words and money? ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS PART THREE Visual print cultures CHAPTER THIRTEEN Graphic histories of the Haitian Revolution CHAPTER FOURTEEN Denis Williams at midcentury CHAPTER FIFTEEN Graphic memoirs PAHÉ AND SATTOUF – GRAPHIC ARTISTS EDUCATION AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST FRANCE CONCLUSION CHAPTER SIXTEEN Protest, street art and the archive EGYPTIAN DIGITAL ARCHIVES RECKONING WITH NARRATIVES DECOLONIAL PRAXIS IN THE VISUAL ARCHIVE CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Archive aesthetics PART FOUR Archives CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Film society journals BACKGROUND THE NATIONAL FILM ARCHIVES OF INDIA FILM SOCIETIES CONCLUSION CHAPTER NINETEEN The metaphorics of Ambedkarite archives CHAPTER TWENTY Disciplining cinemathrough akhla ̄q FILM PEDAGOGY WITHIN AN AKHLA ̄QI ̄ FRAMEWORK REFORMING FILM THROUGH AN AKHLA ̄QI ̄ CRITIQUE CONCLUSION CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE Recirculation CONVENTIONS OF GOLDEN STOOL STORYTELLING THE BORROWED POWER OF ORAL INFORMANTS IN THE COLONIAL LIBRARY RETURN TO THE SOURCE: THE ORAL CONCEIT OF POSTCOLONIAL PRINT CULTURE ESOTERIC FEEDBACK AND THE FOLKLORE OF FOLKLORE CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO Resistance literature, Occupied Palestine and Mao PART FIVE Literary and political networks CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE Adda into print ADDA AS PRACTICE ADDA AND PERIODICAL CULTURE ADDA INTO PRINT: THE BAITHAKI STYLE THE ANECDOTE AND CULTURAL HISTORY GENDER AND CLASS CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR Premature postcolonialists COMPETING LITERARY INTERNATIONALISMS IN THE AGE OF THREE WORLDS THE STRUCTURES OF THE AFRO-ASIAN LITERARY FIELD THE BIRTH OF POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES OUT OF THE ASHES OF THE SECOND AND THIRD WORLD CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE Textual soliditie sand solidarities THE METHODOLOGY OF READING NAMDEO DHASAL AND HIS BOOK OF POEMS, TUHI IYATTA KANCHI, TUHI IYATTA CHANDRAKANT PATIL AND HINDI POETRY THE HINDI LITERARY CONFERENCE AND THE READING OF THE DHASAL POEMS KAMLESHWAR, SARIKA AND THE SPECIAL ISSUE OF MARATHI DALIT WRITING CONCLUSIONS CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX Settlement and struggle CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN ‘Writers in a common cause’? PAN-AFRICANIST PUBLISHING A ‘WRITERS’ COMMUNITY’? CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT Afterword INDEX