নকশালবাড়ি আন্দোলন ও বাংলা কবিতা : একটি আন্তঃবৈষয়িক পাঠ/ The Naxalite Movement and Bengali Poetry: An Inter-subjective Reading

Abstract

The Naxalite movement of late-60s to mid-70s in West Bengal marked a very significant imprint in our Bengali public psyche. It had a great infuence on Bengali literature also. In this article we have tried to grip the imapct of Naxalite movement on Bengali poetry in an inter-subjective mode. Bengali Poetry reflected this impact in two different forms: First, a romantic sympathy for the revolutionary youth who dedicated their life in this movement. Secondly, as almost all the Bengali poets came from a ‘Bhadralok’, middle-class, educated section, who always kept a safe distance from all social turmoils but carried a special kind of nostalgic empathy for those myrters, they expressed their own oppurtunist mentality along with a self-critique and a kind of despair and flouting their own self. This is the art of ‘Mediation’ which took place in this inter-subjective narrativity. Because, the ‘Real’ movement became a process of memory-writting here. We have also tried to distinguish the expression of those poets who actively participated in that movement and who curated the archaic imprints of those memories. Naxalbari movement always remained as a spectre-presence in Bengali poetry.