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ssmscaifa · The Making of Modernist Resistance, 1880-1950

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Период: 2015-09-01 → 2017-10-31
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Радиопредаванията на BBC и литературните текстове анализират антиколониалната съпротива в Индия чрез звука, гласа и музиката. Това помага да се разбере как разказите за колониалното минало отразяват политическите промени и отношението към имигрантите в Британия.

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The Making of Modernist Resistance, 1880-1950

The vibrant diversity of an increasingly global modernity owes much to the cross-cultural exchanges born of activist resistance to the British Indian colonial encounter and the aftermath of decolonization. In the Indo-Anglian writer-activists Mulk Raj Anand and Venu Chitale employed sonic representation on their BBC’s Home and Eastern Service radio programmes to deliver anti-colonial, anti-fascist content with unprecedented speed and immediacy. Seventies and eighties BBC Radio Four retrospectives on the British Raj such as “The Crown and the Lotus” by Charles Allen and Michael Mason or “Indian Tales from the Raj” by Roshan Seth and Zaeer Masani, employed even more advanced modes of sound representation in their recounting of the colonial legacy. My monograph, The Making of Multipolar Modernity: Britain, India, and the Sounding of Colonial Resistance, examines how literary texts, oral histories, and BBC Radio programs from the forties to the eighties enact, revise, and redeploy narratives about the British Raj and anti-colonial resistance in response to the socio-political moment of their production. While BBC radio programmes about the British-Indian encounter from the forties implicitly challenge Britain’s colonial dominance, seventies and eighties revisions of these earlier narratives reveal Britain’s anxieties about national decline following decolonisation. Affective devices such as the tone or inflection of speakers or layered speech and music enabled sound media producers to transform the historical and emotional context through which listeners heard these narratives. By employing sound to evoke two separate historical moments in the same frame, producers linked past attitudes of colonial dominance with contemporary attitudes toward immigrants in ways that influenced public discourse. Considering broadcasts from these periods as part of a larger continuum illustrates how programmes produced retrospectively can employ sound to account for Britain’s increasingly critical views of Empire and deploy these to promote truth and reconciliation.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

The vibrant diversity of an increasingly global modernity owes much to the cross-cultural exchanges between British and Indian modernists during their collaborations in civil rights, anti-colonial, and anti-fascist activism from the 1880s to the 1950s. The proposed project examines the shifting nature of literary and political contributions to activist movements made by four such networks of British and Indian modernists to illuminate their integral role in creating what I contend is a distinctively modernist resistance. As early as the 1880s, theosophists from Britain partnered with renowned Indian spiritualists to bridge cultural gaps between colonizer and colonized through shared mystical experiences to emphasize an innate unity among human beings. By 1919, however, the disillusionment following World War I coupled with India’s outrage about the Amritsar Massacre in which General Dyer and his troops opened fire killing hundreds of innocent Indians, supplanted such yearnings for unity with efforts to protect democratic freedoms from threats by right-wing extremists through a secular socialist resistance. Mulk Raj Anand, initially drawn to the liberal humanism of the Bloomsbury Group eventually joined the radical socialists of India’s Progressive Writers Association in 1936. Women like Sarojini Naidu and Virginia Woolf fought for women’s equality and opportunities to join in anti-right-wing resistance. Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru, influenced by the socialist ideologies of the Fabian Society, incorporated them into Indian nationalism and governance. This study explores the relationship between the ideologies of these networks to establish what the shift from spiritualism to secular socialist nationalism reveals about the nature of modernist resistance and the conditions of modernity that inspired it. The world view underpinning this resistance was integral in defining the post-war identities of Britain and India as secular socialist-leaning democracies.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

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