In the South the Baptists Are the Center of Gravity, Southern Baptists and Social Change, 1930-1980. By Edward L. Queen II. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Carlson Publishing Inc., 1991. 210 pp. $50.00

1993 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 421-422
Author(s):  
J. Storey
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Center Of Gravity ◽  
Southern Baptists ◽  
The South

The South Moves into Its Future: Studies in the Analysis and Prediction of Social Change.

Social Forces ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 70 (3) ◽  
pp. 833
Author(s):  
Larry J. Griffin ◽  
Joseph S. Himes
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
The South ◽  
Future Studies

The Progressive Writers Association

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maia Ramnath
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Social Change ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Third World ◽  
Popular Front ◽  
The Political ◽  
The South ◽  
Significant Component ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
At Home

The Progressive Writers Association (PWA) was founded in the mid-1930s by a group of South Asian leftist intellectuals who moved between metropolitan and colonial contexts. Announcing itself with a manifesto written in London in 1934 and reaching its peak of influence as a movement and an organization inside India in the 1940s, the PWA was a significant component of the South Asian cultural left. Its interlinked political and literary aims (founded upon the principle that the political and the literary must be interlinked) addressed anticolonialism and radical social change at home, while simultaneously positioning itself as part of the international popular front against fascism. As the Progressive writers moved into the post-independence decolonizing period, they identified closely with communist movements in India and Pakistan, while simultaneously positioning themselves at the forefront of Afro-Asian or Third World liberation solidarity formations during the Cold War. Thus these writers occupied a dual position, as simultaneously the cultural wing of the South Asian left and the South Asian manifestation of an international anti-imperialist movement that in both periods viewed art, literature, and ideology as crucial components of building socialism and decolonization.

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