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'I believe that despite the enormous odds which exist, unflinching,
unswerving, fierce intellectual determination, as citizens, to
define the real truth of our lives and our societies is a crucial
obligation which devolves upon us all. It is in fact mandatory.'
Harold Pinter, English PEN President and Literature Nobel 2005 PEN
- 'Poets, Essayists, Novelists' - was founded in London in 1921 to
promote friendship, intellectual co-operation and exchange between
writers from around the world. It has since become a worldwide
network of writers, a community extended to more than 100 countries
who for 100 years has worked to celebrate all literatures without
exception and protect freedom of expression. What was PEN's role in
shaping the very concept of human rights even before it was adopted
by the United Nations in 1948? How did PEN develop fundamental
ideas on free speech as well as the equality of languages and
literatures? This book tells the extraordinary story of how writers
from around the world placed the celebration of literature and the
defence of free speech at the centre of humanity's struggle against
repression and terror. From opposing book burning and the
persecution of writers in Nazi Germany, to supporting dissident
writers during the Cold War and campaigning for imprisoned writers
in China today, PEN has worked to safeguard against all kinds of
censorship and self-censorship. The extraordinary writers who have
been PEN cases is a history of bravery and include Federico Garcia
Lorca, Stefan Zweig, Musine Kokalari, Wole Soyinka, Salman Rushdie,
Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Anna Politkovskaya, Hrant Dink and Svetlana
Alexievich. Those writers' voices, and those of the many others who
have battled to uphold the opening phrase of PEN's Charter -
'Literature knows no frontiers' - are still very much with us.
Without them, PEN International could not have become the strong,
vibrant, active movement it is today.
In this first scholarly work on India's great modern poet, Laetitia
Zecchini outlines a story of literary modernism in India and
discusses the traditions, figures and events that inspired and
defined Arun Kolatkar. Based on an impressive range of archival and
unpublished material, this book also aims at moving lines of
accepted genealogies of modernism and 'postcolonial literature'.
Zecchini uncovers how poets of Kolatkar's generation became modern
Indian writers while tracing a lineage to medieval oral traditions.
She considers how literary bilingualism allowed Kolatkar to blur
the boundaries between Marathi and English, 'Indian' and 'Western
sources; how he used his outsider position to privilege the
quotidian and minor and revived the spirit of popular devotion.
Graphic artist, poet and songwriter, storyteller of Bombay and
world history, poet in Marathi, in English and in 'Americanese',
non-committal and deeply political, Kolatkar made lines wobble and
treasured impermanence. Steeped in world literature, in European
avant-garde poetry, American pop and folk culture, in a 'little
magazine' Bombay bohemia and a specific Marathi ethos, Kolatkar
makes for a fascinating subject to explore and explain the story of
modernism in India. This book has received support from the labex
TransferS: http://transfers.ens.fr/
In this first scholarly work on India's great modern poet, Laetitia
Zecchini outlines a story of literary modernism in India and
discusses the traditions, figures and events that inspired and
defined Arun Kolatkar. Based on an impressive range of archival and
unpublished material, this book also aims at moving lines of
accepted genealogies of modernism and 'postcolonial literature'.
Zecchini uncovers how poets of Kolatkar's generation became modern
Indian writers while tracing a lineage to medieval oral traditions.
She considers how literary bilingualism allowed Kolatkar to blur
the boundaries between Marathi and English, 'Indian' and 'Western
sources; how he used his outsider position to privilege the
quotidian and minor and revived the spirit of popular devotion.
Graphic artist, poet and songwriter, storyteller of Bombay and
world history, poet in Marathi, in English and in 'Americanese',
non-committal and deeply political, Kolatkar made lines wobble and
treasured impermanence. Steeped in world literature, in European
avant-garde poetry, American pop and folk culture, in a 'little
magazine' Bombay bohemia and a specific Marathi ethos, Kolatkar
makes for a fascinating subject to explore and explain the story of
modernism in India. This book has received support from the labex
TransferS: http://transfers.ens.fr/
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