Abstract
The article argues that the progressive litterateurs who were fully cognizant of the
social functionality of literature, deployed literary radicalism as a tool of
articulation of radical ideas to develop an alternative vision of the state and society
that clashed with the vision of military-bureaucratic nexus.1 The latter unable to
appreciate its subtlety began to perceive threat from the radicalism and tried to
suppress it and the apprehensions culminated into the imposition of ban of the
Progressive Writers Association (PWA). Thus, the piece seeks to historicize the
most crucial as well as productive phase of the literary history of Pakistan through
the vantage of the Progressive Writers Association by bringing into focus the
literary radicalism of the PWA. However, it asserts emphatically that the
placement of ban on the PWA did not signal the end to the Progressive Writers
Movement (PWM), which continued to advance the cause through myriad other
radical interventions.
Irfan Waheed Usmani. (2021) Literary Radicalism and the Tools of its Articulation: Examining the Role of the Progressive Writers Association between 1948 and 1954, Journal of the Punjab University Historical Society, Volume 34, issue 2.
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