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THEORY AND PRACTICE OF THE COMMUNIST CULTURAL ACTIVISM IN KERALA
The emergence of the Left ideological currents in the world politics gave rise to serious debates about the role and importance of culture in political affairs. The cultural movements were then viewed as a way to attain cultural hegemony, which provides a platform to build political hegemony. The cu...
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REVIEW OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
2014
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| Online Access: | http://10.26.1.76/ks/005919.pdf |
| Summary: | The emergence of the Left ideological currents in the world politics gave rise to
serious debates about the role and importance of culture in political affairs. The cultural
movements were then viewed as a way to attain cultural hegemony, which provides a
platform to build political hegemony. The cultural programmes were also viewed as a
tool to carry political propaganda for mobilizing the proletariat and other marginalized
sections of the society. In this regard, the Leftist theoreticians made serious efforts in
shaping a theoretical base to the cultural strategies. The present research paper assess
and analyses the communist cultural theories and its intervention in the literary and
theatre scenario of Kerala. |
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| Physical Description: | p.50-58 Vol. XV No.2 • January - June 2014 |