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Kazi Nazrul Islam and Decolonisation: Poetry as a Praxis of Political Intervention and Cultural Ecology.
- Source :
- Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language & Literature; Jun2022, Vol. 16 Issue 1, p120-136, 17p
- Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- This paper explores how Kazi Nazrul Islam's poetry aligns with the leitmotifs of decolonisation. Nazrul Islam grapples with the race-gender-based regimens of his society. His activism and creative oeuvre harp on a subversive praxis, which interrogates the British colonial regime and racist norms ingrained in colonial India. As the paper examines, decolonisation not only foregrounds anti-colonial interventions and emancipation of the colonised, but envisages a continuing cultural revolution against colonialism. Analysing Nazrul Islam's emblematic political poems and his intellectual struggle, the paper ascertains how his poetry and authorial-political life mirror the philosophy of decolonisation, and thus radically contends colonialism. His poetry pits a cultural wholeness -- composed by nature, human, men, women, and global religions and myths -- against the western ideology of culture, race, anthropocentrism, and androcentrism that remains agentive in shaping, consolidating, and validating global colonialism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- POETRY (Literary form)
IMPERIALISM
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 19853106
- Volume :
- 16
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Supplemental Index
- Journal :
- Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language & Literature
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 157759646
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.31436/asiatic.v16i1.2493