![]() ![]() ![]() This shift politicizes the aesthetics of the post-colony as much as it reveals a wanton disengagement with postcolonial publics. But since the 1940s, a perceptible shift of this regime is visible as Calcutta hurtled towards a transformational tornado. Early records of Calcutta’s visual history show a determinable practice of viewing the city from carefully aesthetisized distances to establish an unmistakable visual authority. The city of Calcutta, once the seat of the British Empire’s deepest engagement with colonial modernity in South Asia, is a great example of this scopic employment. ![]() When this disagreement is considered visually, there seems to be an unremitting foregrounding of the ugly as a prevalent motif in understanding the self-fashioning of the postcolonial city as a pestilential site of urban reconfiguration. The debate about urban space in the Global South has been dominated by a sense of ambivalence regarding metropolitan modernity and postcoloniality. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |