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The Post-Colonial Magazine Archive

Orsini, Francesca

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Indian magazines and print culture in general have been studied more thoroughly for the colonial period, but the 1950s–1970s have rightly been called the golden age of magazine culture. In Hindi literary lore, magazines loom large as the main platform for literature, where poets and fiction writers found readers and recognition and critics debated aesthetics and ideology. To borrow Amit Chaudhuri’s phrase, magazines were sites of intense ‘literary activism’: an activism by editors on behalf of literature to champion new writers and encourage readers’ tastes, but also a constant critical interrogation on the value and function of literature. Despite their ephemeral nature—particularly in the Hindi context where old books and periodicals tend to be sold in bulk as scrap paper—magazines embody, and capture for us eager after-readers, a lively community of readers and writers. This essay explores the multilingual ‘ecology’ of Hindi and English literary and middlebrow magazines, including Kahānī, Kalpanā, Sārikā, Saritā and Caravan.

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Orsini, F. (in press). The Post-Colonial Magazine Archive. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 45(2), 250-267. https://doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2022.2038484

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Jan 31, 2022
Online Publication Date Mar 14, 2022
Deposit Date Mar 30, 2022
Publicly Available Date Mar 30, 2022
Journal South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies
Print ISSN 0085-6401
Electronic ISSN 1479-0270
Publisher Taylor and Francis Group
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 45
Issue 2
Pages 250-267
DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2022.2038484
Keywords Sociology and Political Science, History, Development, Cultural Studies
Publisher URL https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00856401.2022.2038484

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