Global Asian Literary Studies Series with Neetu Khanna on “Stars from Another Sky”

Presenter: Neetu Khanna (USC). Moderator: Sravanthi Kollu (BU). This talk explores how Urdu authors Saadat Hasan Manto and Ismat Chughtai developed distinctive Marxist feminist aesthetics during the era of decolonization in India, which they cultivated in relation to popular films, as both made a living as scenarists for the Bombay film industry in the 1930s and 40s. This talk also centers this peculiar range of their distinctive writings against the backdrop of decolonization in India in order to interrogate their experiments in revolutionary aesthetics and explorations into the erotics of decolonization.i t