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Literature of protest / editor, Kimberly Drake, Scripps College.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Critical insights.
- Critical Insights
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Protest literature, American--History and criticism.
- Protest literature, American.
- Justice, Administration of, in literature.
- Social justice in literature.
- Protest literature, English--History and criticism.
- Protest literature, English.
- Protest literature, Russian--History and criticism.
- Protest literature, Russian.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 279 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Ipswich, Mass. : Salem Press, c2013.
- Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press ; Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, [2013]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book provides readers with essays that examine literature of protest, which are fiction and poetry works that emerged from minority social positions, critiqued majority status quo conditions, and presented radical and alternative views of the world. All of the essays conclude with a list of "Works Cited," along with endnotes.
- Contents:
- On the literature of protest: words as weapons / Kimberly Drake
- Critical contexts : Countering the rhetoric of slavery: the critical roots and critical reception of Uncle Tom's Cabin / Lydia Willsky ; Brutish behavior: Joseph Conrad, Mark Twain, and anticolon ial protests, 1899-1905 / Jeremiah Garsha ; Nella Larsen and Langston Hughes: modernist protest in the Harlem Renaissance / Kimberly Drake ; The meaning of rape in Richard Wright's Native Son / Kimberly Drake
- Critical readings : Radical and nationalist resistance in David Walker's and Frederick Douglass's antislavery narratives / Babacar M'Baye ; The new woman chafes against her bonds / Adeline Carrie Koscher ; The solidarity of song: proletarians, poetry, and the public sphere of the Lawrence textile strike of 1912 / Tara Forbes and Mikhail Bjorge ; Dystopia as protest: Zamyatin's We and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four / Rachel Stauffer ; Paranoia and pacifism in E.E. Cummings's The Enormous Room / Seth Johnson ; Holiness and heresy: Viramontes, la Virgen, and the mother-daughter bond / Christi Cook.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed April 17, 2013).
- ISBN:
- 9781299311480
- 1299311482
- 9781429838429
- 1429838426
- OCLC:
- 832313984
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