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Progressive literary movement, •, , and the proponents of "art for, , It is the movement of those who, , art's sake," pointing at the unique, , consciously create literature for, , path an Indian writer could take, , the progress of society., , The, , independent, , life, , prescriptions., , conflicts, , within, , social, , reflected in the mental sphere. It, , •, , In 1956, the three Malayalamspeaking, , writers should create literature, , Cochin, and Travancore, were, , that will assist the struggles, , united to form the state of Kerala,, , against British imperialism., , bringing, , Progressive writers in Malayalam, , political and linguistic unity to the, , Literature emerged in the field of, , culture of Malayalam-speaking, , Malayali literary works in the, , people., •, , Many, , regions,, , an, , Malabar,, , environment, , members, , of, , the, , of, , new, , movement emerged in order to, , communist cabinet were literary, , accomplish, , personalities;, , certain, , obvious, , the, , and, , novelist, , The Jeeval Sahitya Prastanam, , himself became the minister of, , (K. Damodaran ) in Kerala also, , education and the chief minister, , acknowledged this declaration., , was E.M.S. Namboothiripad, a, , This was was the Kerala regional, , prolific writer on history and, , branch, , Marxist aesthetics., , of, , the, , All, , India, , Kuttikrishna, , Marar's, , Joseph, , critic, , social requirements., , Progressive Writers Association., •, , Western, , was declared that progressive, , 1930's. The progressive literature, , •, , •, , of, , Muntasseri, , Ayyappan was arguably the first to, , critical introduce, , the, , word, , ‘sakhakkale’, , essays, eventually collected in (comrades) in Malayalam. It appeared, 1965 as a single volume, Kala in a poem titled Ezhavodbodhanam, Jeevitham Thanne, took issue (1918) in which he urged the youth to, with both the socialist realists reform a decadent Kerala emulating
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the Russian example. The Sahodara Kerala had been won over by the, Sangam, , movement, , stormed, , the movement., , bastions of reactionary beliefs and, practices, , by, , heralding, , rationalism,, , •, , They, , included, , Vallathol, , poets, , Narayana, , Menon,, , egalitarianism and socialist principles., , Changampuzha, , Writer P. Kesavadev, who later became, , and G. Shankara Kurup, , the editor of Thozhilali, had taken it, , Krishna, , ◦ fiction, , like, Pillai, , writers like, , upon himself to talk to the working, , Vaikom, , class the ideals of communism, giving, , Basheer,, , them the hope of emancipation., , Shivashankara Pillai,, , Jeevatsahitya Movement, , Karoor, , The Jeevatsahitya (literally ‘living, , Mohammed, Thakazhi, Neelakanta, , Pillai, S.K. Pottekkatt,, , literature’ or ‘the literature of life’), , Keshava, , Movement launched in 1937 can be, , Ponkunnam Varky,, , considered the first true avant-garde, , Dev, , ◦ playwrights, , and, like, , movement in Malayalam literature. It, , Thoppil Bhasi, S.L., , not only changed the modes of literary, , Puram, , expression but tried to redefine the, , and K.T. Muhammed,, , norms and canons of literature itself,, , and, , ultimately, , interrogating, , the, , very, , institution., Conference, , ◦ critics, , Sadanandan, , like Joseph, , Mundassery and M.P., of, , the, , Progressive, , Writers’, By the time the first conference of, , Paul,, , besides, , communist, , activists, , and, ◦ fellow travellers like, , the Progressive Writers’ Association, , K., , was held, almost every major writer in, , Cherukad,, , D.M., , Pottekkatt,, , M.S., , Damodaran,
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Devadas,, , writers of various persuasions together, , Kedamangalam, , in, , Pappukutty,, , the, , movement,, , gave, , way, , to, , M.P. sectarian views of commitment to the, , Bhattathirippad, , party line., , (Premji) and others., , In, , brief,, , the, , association, , of, , These writers used progressive writers was conceived to, different idioms even carry, , out, , certain, , historical, , social, , while sharing similar necessities and to accomplish renewed, concerns., Vaikom, , Muhammad, , responsibilities of changing cultural, Basheer, aspects., , Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai, Kesava, Dev, S. K. Pottekkat, Lalithambika, , Role of theatre, A theatre is an elitist art form and, , Antharjanam, Uroob and Cherukad are while going to the theatre you will get a, prominent novelists of this generation. wonderful opportunity to explore the, The, , novelist, , generation, , of, , who, the, , typifies, progressive, , the human condition and gather together. It, is is the intricate part of the human, , Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai. He started history, , because, , it, , is, , having, , the, , out as a leftist and matured into a true capability to show the best and worst, Kerala original., Poets like Vyloppilly Sreedhara, , sides of human nature., Theatre has been an influential, , Menon and Idassery Govindan Nair, factor in many people’s lives allowing, playwrights like N. Krishna Pillai and their creativity to flourish, and most, C.J. Thomas and fiction writers like importantly, enabling the development, P.C. Kuttikrishnan (Uroob) who stood of their self-expression. This can have, mostly outside the movement, could a profound impact on academics as, not but respond to the new social and well. The theatre is the most crucial, literary ferment. But by 1948, a broad one for many reasons such as, consensus-perspective that had held, , • Self discovery
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• Expression, • History and education, • Performing arts, • Creativity, Performing art is about being creative, and it teaches people how to express, ourselves more effectively. Basically, performing arts are important one, for many reasons like forming new, opinions,, criticism,, , receiving, solve, , constructive, , problems, , perseverance and discipline., , better,
