Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Navya Movement

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Jun 28, 2012, 3:35:13 PM (12 years ago)

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Trupti

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Navya Movement

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+'''Navya Movement'''
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+
+Influential modernist literary movement in
+Kannada initiated by Gopalakrishna Adiga’s
+two poetry collections, Nadedu Banda Dari
+(1952) and Bhumigita (1959). The movement is
+described in G.B. Joshi and Kirtinath
+Kurthakoti’s major rewriting of Kannada
+literary history in a 3-volume book with the
+same title as Adiga’s anthology, Nadedu Banda
+Dari (1959). Navya represented a departure
+from Navodaya’s transcendental romanticism,
+emphasising instead a more limited protagonist
+placed within contemporary mass-culture and
+consumerism. It acknowledged the influence of
+Kafka, Camus, Sartre and Freud. The
+movement reached its creative pinnacle in the
+late 60s with U.R. Ananthamurthy’s fiction
+(Samskara, 1966) and developed an
+uncompromising political opposition to the
+hegemonic Brahmin élite. It extended directly
+into the cinema with Pattabhi Rama Reddy’s
+film of Samskara (1970), encouraging
+modernist writers, playwrights and stage
+directors to turn to the cinema (e.g. P.
+Lankesh, Girish Karnad, Chandrasekhar
+Kambhar, B.V. Karanth, Baraguru
+Ramchandrappa, actor C.R. Simha et al.). The
+shift into cinema perpetuated the belief that
+film is an extension of literature, spawning
+many adaptations of the writings of e.g. Masti
+Venkatesha Iyengar, Chaduranga, Triveni, T.R.
+Subba Rao and S.L. Bhairappa. In retrospect,
+only three films - Samskara, Lankesh’s Pallavi
+(1976) and Girish Kasaravalli’s
+Ghattashraddha (1977) - have direct political
+and formal links with Navya. Later, many
+‘kalatmaka’ (artistic) or ‘Prayogika’
+(experimental) films claimed to derive e.g.
+from Chaduranga’s novels (the writer filmed his
+own novel Sarvamangala, 1968), while
+directors like N. Lakshminarayan, G.V. Iyer
+and Puttanna Kanagal went on to formulate
+an art-house aesthetic quickly enshrined in
+Karnataka film and TV policies.
+
+[[Glossary]]