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This article engages debates in anti-colonial marxist aesthetics to understand why poets and writers in Pakistan developed new, avant garde forms to create work in opposition to General Zia ul Haq's 1979 military coup.
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This article helps us better understand the possibilities of art in raising global awareness of and support for movements against an authoritarian state.
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My hope is that this article will spark a conversation about how we can resist contemporary authoritarianism by learning more about past strategies that had global resonance.
Kristin Plys
University of Toronto
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This page is a summary of: Political Work on a Cultural Front, Historical Materialism, November 2022, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/1569206x-20221954.
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