Aesthetics and Politics in the Global South
I am the editor of The Bloomsbury Anthology of Aesthetics and Politics in the Global South, a constantly growing collection of texts that demonstrate the vibrancy and necessity of political philosophy and aesthetic theory from the Global South.
The list below includes texts in the current anthology (marked with an asterisk) as well as texts we hope to include in future editions. Suggestions for additional texts are always welcome.
*M.K. Gandhi, Hind Swaraj (India, 1910)`
Rabindranath Tagore (India), ‘World Literature’
‘Abdu’l-Baha (Iran), ‘Some Answered Questions’
Africanus Horton (Sierra Leone), ‘Black Nationalism’
Luisa Capetillo (Puerto Rico), ‘Ensayos Libertarios’ (‘Essays on Liberty’)
Sri Aurobindo (India), from The Life Divine
*Sri Aurobindo, ‘The Ideal Spirit of Poetry’ and ‘Conclusion’ from The Future Poetry (India, 1917)
*Rabindranath Tagore, ‘Nationalism in the West’ from Nationalism (India, 1917)
*SM Mitra, ‘The Position of Women in Indian Life’ (India, 1912)
*Raden Adjeng Kartini, Letters of a Javanese Princess (Indonesia, 1921)
*Sun Yet Sen, ‘The Three Principles’ from Memoirs of a Chinese Revolutionary: A Programme of National reconstruction for China (China, 1927)
*Augusto C. Sandino “MANIFESTO, July 1, 1927” from Sandino: The Testimony of a Nicaraguan Patriot, 1921–1934 (Nicaragua, 1927)
*Lu Xun, “Literature of a Revolutionary Period,” Lu Xun (China, 1927)
*José Carlos Mariátegui, “The Anti-Imperialist Perspective” (Peru, 1928)
*Thanthai Periyar, ‘Masculinity’ Must be Destroyed for Women's Liberation’ (India, 1928)
*Bhagat Singh,“The Philosophy of the Bomb,” Hindustan Socialist Republican Army (India, 1930)
*Jawaharlal Nehru, from Glimpse of World History (India, 1931)
*Jaswaharlal Nehru, ‘‘What is a Citizen?' (India, 1935)
Jorge Cuesta (Mexico), ‘La Calle de Amor’ (‘The Street of Love’)
Ali Akbar Dehkhoda (Iran), preface to Dictionary
Yi T’aejun (Korea), ‘This Thing Called the Popular’
George Padmore (Trinidad and Tobago), from Haiti
Cattamanchi Ramalinga Reddy (India), ‘On Telugu Aesthetics’
Jose Carlos Mariategui (Peru), from ‘Seven Interpretative Essays on Peruvian Reality’
*Manifesto of the Progressive Writer’s Association (India, 1936)
An Jung-geun (Korea), ‘The Peace of East Asia’
M.K. Gandhi (India), from Hind Swaraj
Sol Plaatje (South Africa), from Native Life in South Africa
Emiliano Zapata (Mexico), from Plan of Ayala
Rabindranath Tagore (India), from Nationalism
Marcus Garvey (Jamaica), from Africa for Africans
V.D. Savarkar (India), from Hindutva
Hindustan Socialist Republican Army (India), ‘The Philosophy of the Bomb’
Huda Shaarawi (Egypt), from Harem Years
Jean Price-Mars (Haiti), from So Spoke the Uncle
Manuel Maples Arc (Mexico), ‘Manifesto for Stridentism’
Los Contemporáneos (Mexico), ‘Mexico Moderno’
V.S. Srinivasa Sastri (India), ‘The Indian Citizen’
Jose Carlos Mariategui (Peru), ‘Anti-Imperial Viewpoint’
*CLR James, ‘Appendix: From Toussaint L’Ouverture to Fidel Castro’ from The Black Jacobins (Trinidad and Tobago, 1938)
*Anton de Kom, “We Slaves of Suriname” (Surinam, 1938)
*George Padmore, “Hands off the Colonies” (Trinidad and Tobago, 1938)
*Iqbal, ‘Is Religion Possible’ from Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam (India/Pakistan, 1938)
*Suzanne Cesaire, ‘The Malaise of Civilisation’ from The Great Camouflage (Martinique, 1942)
*Claudia Jones, ‘An end to the neglect of the problems of the Negro woman!’ (Trinidad and Tobago, 1949)
Ho Chi Minh (Vietnam), ‘Declaration of Independence’
W.E.B. Du Bois (US/Ghana), ‘Human Rights for all Minorities’
Fernando Ortiz (Cuba), ‘Cuban Counterpoint’
Mao Zedong (China), ‘On New Democracy’
Truong Chinh (Vietnam), ‘The August Revolution’
Zheng Chaolin (China), ‘On the Nature of Revolution’
Syama Prasad Mukherjee (India), ‘Awake Hindustan’
Sahajanand Saraswati (India), ‘Khet Mazdoor’ (‘Agricultural Labourer’)
Eric Williams (Trinidad and Tobago), from Capitalism and Slavery
Sukarno (Indonesia), ‘Opening Address at the Bandung Conference’
Leslie Goonewardene (Sri Lanka), ‘What We Stood For’
Khafila Abdul Hakim (Pakistan), “Islam and Communism’
Gamal Abdel Nasser (Egypt), ‘Egypt’s Liberation’
National Liberation Front (Algeria), ‘Proclamation’
Conscience Africaine, ‘Manifesto for Belgian Congo’
George Padmore (Trinidad and Tobago), ‘Pan-Africanism or Communism?’
Fidel Castro (Cuba), ‘The Revolution Begins Now’
*Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism (Martinique, 1950)
*C.R. Reddy, “On Depictions of Love by Westerners,” from An Enquiry into Poetics (India, 1950)
*Manto, ‘Letter to Uncle Sam’ (India, 1951)
*Soekarno, “The Birth of Pantjasila” (Indonesia, 1952)
Mao Zedong (China), from On Practice
Emilio Frugoni (Uruguay), ‘La Revolution del machete’ (‘The Revolution of the Machete’)
Pixley ka Isaka Seme (South Africa), ‘I Appeal to the African Nation’
Bantu Forum (South Africa), ‘Manifesto’
Ubaidullah Sindhi (India/Pakistan), ‘On Socialism and Islam’
B.R. Ambedkar (India), from Annihilation of Caste
*Pramoedya Ananta Toer. ‘The Definition of Literature and the Question of Beauty' from Indonesian Notebook, (Indonesia, 1952)
Sadegh Hedayat (Iran), ‘A New Method of Literary Research’
`Forugh Farrokhzad (Iran), ‘Sin’
Francisco Romero (Argentina), ‘The Theory of Man’
Jacques Stephen Alexis (Haiti), from Of the Marvelous Realism of the Haitians
Samuel Ramos (Mexico), ‘Filosofia de la vida artistica’ (‘Philosophy of an Artistic Life’)
*Eric Williams, ‘Massa Day Done’ (Trinidad and Tobago, 1961)
*Glauber Rocha, An Esthetics of Hunger (Brazil, 1965)
*Charu Mazumdar, “Historic Eight Documents” from The Collected Works of Charu Mazumdar (India, 1966)
Jalal al-e Ahmad (Iran), ‘Occidentosis’
Kwame Nkrumah (Ghana), from Neocolonialism
Vo Nguyen Giap (Vietnam), ‘People’s War, People’s Army’
Kim Il Sun (North Korea), ‘Great Anti-Imperialist Revolutionary Cause of Asian, African, and Latin American Peoples is Inevitable’
Frantz Fanon (Martinique/Algeria), ‘Alienation and Freedom’
Paolo Friere (Brazil), from Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Walter Rodney (Guyana), from The Groundings with my Brothers
Patrice Lumumba (DR Congo), ‘Address to Congolese Youth’
*Amilcar Cabral, The Weapon of Theory (Guinea-Bassau, 1966)
*Salvador Allende, “Last speech to Nation, September 11, 1973,” (Chile, 1973)
Nick Joaquin (Philippines), ‘Popcorn and Gaslight’
Julio Espinosa (Cuba), ‘On Third Cinema’
Fernando Solanas and Octavio Gentino (Argentina), ‘Towards a Third Cinema’
Institute of People’s Culture (Indonesia), ‘1963 Cultural Manifesto’
Ali Shari’ati (Iran), ‘Reflections on Humanity’
Léopold Senghor (Senegal), ‘On Negritude’
Gabriel Okara (Nigeria), from The Voice
Frantz Fanon (Martinique/Algeria), ‘On National Culture’
George Lamming (Barbados), from The Pleasures of Exile
Ahmed Bouanani (Morocco), ‘An Introduction to Popular Moroccan Poetry’
Abdellatif Laabi (Morocco), ‘Realities and Dilemmas of National Culture’
*Albert Wendt, ‘Towards a New Oceania’ (Samoa, 1976)
*Julio García Espinosa, ‘For an imperfect cinema’ (Cuba, 1979)
*Gabriel Garcia Marquez, ‘Nobel Award Speech’ (Colombia, 1982)
*Eduardo Galeano, from Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent (Uruguay, 1973)
*Rigoberta Menchú, from I, Rigoberta Menchú (Guatemala, 1983)
Kim Jung Il (North Korea), from On the Art of Cinema
Kim Sang-ok (South Korea), ‘Poetry and Porcelain’
Mulk Raj Anand (India), ‘Pigeon English’
Namdeo Dhasal (India), from Golpitha
Ahmad Shamlu (Iran), from The Book of the Alley
Albert Memmi (Tunisia), from The Coloniser and the Colonised
Albert Memmi (Tunisia), from L’écriture colorée (Coloured Writing)
Chinua Achebe (Nigeria), ‘An Image of Africa’
Ngugi wa Thiong’o (Kenya), ‘On the Abolition of the English Department’
Sylvia Wynter (Jamaica), ‘Ethno or Socio Poetics’
Sylvia Wynter (Jamaica), ‘The Eye of the Other’
Antonio Benitez-Rojo (Cuba), from The Repeating Island
*Eqbal Ahmad, ‘Kashmir and its Challenges’ (Pakistan/US, 1990)
*Epeli Hau'ofa, from We Are the Ocean (Fiji, 1993)
*Haunani-Kay Trask, ‘Speech on the Centennial Commemoration of the American Overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom’ (Hawai’i, 1993)
*D.R. Nagaraj, fromThe Flaming Feet, D.R. Nagaraj (India, 1993)
Abdul Hamid Khan (Pakistan), ‘Demands’
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (Iran), ‘Islamic Government’
Hamid Ashraf (Iran), ‘Urban and Mountain Guerilla Warfare’
Ahmed Sékou Touré (Guinea), from Africa and Imperialism
Julius Nyrere (Tanzania), from Ujaama
Elsa Goveia (Guyana/Jamaica), from The Social Framework
Elena Poniatowska (Mexico), ‘Massacre in Mexico’
Juan Bosch (Dominican Republic), ‘De Cristobal Colón a Fidel Castro’ (‘From Christopher Columbus to Fidel Castro’)
Vinod Mishra (India), ‘The Question of World Peace’
Akhil Gogoi (India), ‘Morubhumi Ahe Lahe Lahe’ (‘The Desert Approaches’)
Kuttimani (Sri Lanka), ‘On Sri Lankan Revolution’
Concertacíon (Chile), ‘Concertacíon por la Democracia’ (‘Coalition for Democracy’)
Eduardo Rabossi (Argentina), ‘La carta universal de los derechos humanos’ (‘The Declaration of Universal Human Rights’)
*Edouard Glissant, ‘Errantry, Exile’ from The Poetics of Relation (Martinique, 1990)
*Edouard Glissant, ‘In Praise of Creoleness’ (Martinique, 1990)
*Marse Condé, ‘Pan-Africanism, Feminism, and Culture’ (Guadeloupe, 1994)
*Wilson Harris, ‘The Music of Living Landscapes’ (Guyana, 1996)
Pramoedya Ananta Toer (Indonesia), from ‘The Mute’s Soliloquy’
Sahmat Collective (India), ‘Manifesto’
Najma Sadeque (Pakistan), ‘How They Run the World’
Velupillai Prabhakaran (Sri Lanka), ‘On the Founding of the LTTE’
Osama bin Laden (Saudi Arabia/Afghanistan), ‘A Message to the World’
Zapatista of National Liberation (EZLN) (Mexico), ‘Primera Declaración’ (‘First Declaration’)
Enrique Dussel (Argentina/Mexico), from ‘History of Philosophy and Philosophy of Liberation’
Liu Xiaobo (China), ‘No Enemies, No Hatred’
Pratap Banu Mehta (India), from The Burden of Democracy
Zubaan Collective (India), from Do You Remember Konan Poshpura?
Wangari Maathai (Kenya), from The Challenge for Africa
Rohit Vemula (India), ‘Suicide Note’
Patrick Chamoiseau (Martinique), ‘In Praise of Créolité’
Kamau Brathwaite (Barbados), from The History of the Voice
Derek Walcott (St. Lucia), from Isla Incognito
Stuart Hall (Jamaica/UK), from Stranger Familiar
Edward Said (Palestine/US), ‘Reflections on Exile’
*Ken Saro-Wiwa, from A Month and a Day (Nigeria, 1996)
*Aniket Jaaware, from Destitute Literature (India, 2010)
*Archana Varma, ‘grand celebration,’ of Feminist Discourse” (India, 2010)