Intervention : Laetitia Zecchini

The Cold War is one of the indispensable contexts against which postcolonial modernisms must be reconsidered. This talk will focus on Bombay/Mumbai, which became an incredibly rich breeding ground for a particular kind of modernism and modern poetry after Indian independence. The struggle over the political and aesthetic implications of “freedom,” a defining feature of the cultural Cold War, was also a struggle over the meanings of modernism—a struggle that played out in the work and correspondence of certain « Bombay poets » and in spaces such as « little magazines.”

Thematic axes : Approches historiques des modernités littéraires et artistiques, Dynamiques interculturelles, Politiques des littératures et des arts : enjeux et situations

Research programmes : AHRC (2017-2021) "The Impact of non-governmental writers’ organisations on free expression"

Keywords : Literature, Poetry, Indian Studies, Postcolonial studies, Translation