REBEL POET? OR REVOLUTIONARY MILITANT?

This lecture will resituate Bangladesh’s national poet Kazi Nazrul Islam through Dr. Hussain’s reading of his engagements with anticolonial struggle and an insurrectionary vision of decolonized “world literature.” Reading Nazrul’s writings through Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani’s notion of muqawamah, and in dialogue with the Latin American revolutionary Roque Dalton’s concept of “militant poetics,” Hussain argues that Nazrul’s work anticipates Frantz Fanon, Cabral, and Thiong’o, while remaining irreducibly his own: multilingual, materialist, internationalist.

May 4 | 11:30 A.M.

Lake Balboa Room, Northridge Center

Zoom ID: 4803047926