Love and Revolution in the Twentieth-Century Colonial and Postcolonial World: Perspectives from South Asia and Southern Africa

Preface
Acknowledgements
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Love & Revolution: An Introduction
	Overture
	Site 1: Love and Revolution—The ‘Problem Space’
	Site 2: Law and the State
	Site 3: Depleted Love and the Liberal Problem
	Site 4: Love and Revolution—The Relation
	Site 5: In the Pause/Interval—Subjective Grounds of the Political
	Site 6: Imperfect Time
	References
Part I: Intensities: Writing/Aesthetic/Cinematic
	Chapter 2: “Everything Built on Moonshine”: Love and Revolution in Iqbal’s Islamic Modernist Poetry and Faiz’s Socialist Verse
		Introduction
		Love and Intimacy in Indian Radical Aesthetics
		Sexuality and Desire in the Progressive Writers’ Movement
		Reforming Love and Desire in Modern Urdu Poetry
		Love and Selfhood in Iqbal’s Poetry
		Greater India
		Love, Incarceration, and Revolution in Faiz’s Poetry
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 3: Sadness, as such…
		Sketching the Passage of Emotions
		Nationalism, Subalternity, and Postcoloniality
		A Painter of Sadness
		Political Subjectivity and Postcolonial Aesthetics
		In Search of Sadness, as Such
		References
	Chapter 4: Mapiko: Fragments of Revolutionary Time
		Pemba, 2006—Hangover
		Maputo, 1977—Triumph
		Mueda, 1978—Disappointment
		Nang’unde, 1950—Play
		Matambalale, 1981—Misalignment
		Nampanya, ca. 1980—Cathexis
		Namau, 1962—Threshold
		Base Beira, 1971—Patches
		References
Part II: Depletions: Family/Party/Intimacy
	Chapter 5: Caste, Intimacy and Family: The Experiences of the Slave Castes in Kerala
		Genres of Love and Intimacy in the Feudal Caste Order
		The Pedagogic Practices of Love: Imagining Reforms
		Love, and Dalit Literary Imagination
		Slave Caste Men and Woman in Missionary Discourses
		“Marriage and Family” in the Missionary Archive
		Social Movements and the Imagination of Family
		Anti-caste Social Mobilization and Class Mobilization
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 6: Making and Challenging a Biographic Order: National Longing, Political Belonging and the Politics of Affect in a South African Liberation Movement
		Paternalism and Patronage in the Family and the School
		Order, Constraint and Person Formation
		Dissent, Discipline and Biographic Contestation
		References
	Chapter 7: The Family Romance of the South African Revolution
		References
	Chapter 8: The Romantic Manifesto: Gender and “Outlaw” Emotions in the Naxalbari Movement
		“Outlaw” Emotions in the Time of Revolution
		The Romantic Manifesto of Naxalbari
		Love Stories of the Revolution
		References
Part III: Love/Sacrifice/Law
	Chapter 9: Bhagat Singh: Sacrifice, Suffering, and the Tradition of the Oppressed
		Bhagat Singh’s Sacrifice
		Atheist Sacrifice
		Admiration
		The Oppressed
		References
	Chapter 10: “Love is Stronger in Prison than Outside”: The Intimate Politics of Independence in the Congo
		Kissing Colonialism Goodbye: Jean Depara and the Art of Self-Timing
		Subversive Lyrics and Political Choreographies
		Affective Frictions and Student Politics at Lovanium University
		Unhappy Romances
		The (Post)Colony as Prison
		Brotherly Love
		References
	Chapter 11: Political Funerals in South Africa: Photography, History, and the Refusal of Light (1960s–80s)
		Death and the Movement of History
		Funerals and Morphogenesis
		Refusal of Light
		Documentary Photographs and Social History in South Africa
		Micropolitics of Funerals
		Funeral of Light: The Seen and Unseen of Apartheid
		Withdrawal of Light: Photographers and Death
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 12: The Love Commandment: Affect in the Time of Dissent and Democracy
		Sedition in Three Acts: Gandhi, Binayak Sen and JNU
		Nation and Affect
		Love, Inconclusive
		References
Full List of Participants
	Love and Revolution Workshops I–IV
Index