Novel, Progressive Writers’ Movement, and the Telugu Public Sphere: The Literary Journey of S. Natarajan

Abstract

The main objective of this study is to critically understand the fashioning of literary discourse and genres in colonial and post-colonial Andhra during the 1940s and the 1950s. Another major objective of this study is to critically understand the conditions of possibility for the reception and mediation of modern literary and non-literary ideologies such as Realism, Surrealism, Modernism, Marxism, Socialism, Communism, and others. Colonial Andhra consists of the Telugu speaking districts of the Madras presidency. To achieve these objectives, this study uses the conception of the public sphere which consists of both the literary and the political spheres. My study will try to pay attention to the key developments