Voltairine de Cleyre's Transnational Anarchism.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Filanti, Rita.

Series:

Contemporary Anarchist Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

De Cleyre, Voltairine, 1866-1912.

Anarchism.

Feminism.

Local Subjects:

De Cleyre, Voltairine, 1866-1912.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (271 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2026.

Summary:

This study of Voltairine de Cleyre's transnational anarchism focuses on her work as pedagogue and translator to reveal the originality of her thought. Close reading of her writing, including personal correspondence, provides new insight into a key, unjustly neglected and altogether contemporary figure in American anarchist history.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright information

Contents

Figures

Preface

Introduction

Notes

Chapter 1: Treading an unbeaten path: Voltairine de Cleyre's transnational anarchism

From freethought to 'anarchism without adjectives'

Teaching English in Philadelphia: transnationalism in practice

The Yiddish-American anarchist press: Joseph Cohen's and Saul Yanovsky's translations of de Cleyre's work into Yiddish

Anarchism in action: translating Isaac L. Peretz and Z. Libin from Yiddish

'Hope and Fear'

'Little Albert's Punishment'

Editing Alexander Berkman's Prison Memoirs: toward a transnational literature

Conclusion: anarchism and the transnationalization of American literature

Chapter 2: 'What is an Author?': anarchism, feminism, and translation

Voltairine de Cleyre's 'Preface' to her translation of La Société mourante et l'anarchie

The translator's footnotes to Moribund Society: Cesare Lombroso and the 'criminal type'

The translator's footnotes to Moribund Society: the 'fatherland', patriotism, and the military

Translating Francisco Ferrer's La escuela moderna (1908): an anarchist practice

Francisco Ferrer and the rise of the Modern School movement

Voltairine de Cleyre's take on Ferrer, libertarian education, and the Chicago Modern School

Voltairine de Cleyre's translation of 'La Rénovation de l'école' into American English

Conclusion

Chapter 3: 'The question of souls is old-we demand our bodies now': Voltairine de Cleyre's anarchist-feminism

More feminist than anarchist?

The anarchist-feminist response to the women's suffrage movement

'They Who Marry Do Ill'

Motherhood, abortion, and birth control in anarchist-feminist thought

Eugenics and the 'race death' in anarchist-feminist debate.

The legacy of Quaker abolitionism in de Cleyre's (de)metaphorization of slavery

The translation of oppression and the Women's Bible

Chapter 4: 'A dream translator': anarchism, Romanticism, and the American Gothic

Toward an anarchist aesthetic

'Anarchism in Literature'

De Cleyre's anarchist poetry

'Out of the Darkness': oppositional metaphors in de Cleyre's poems of conversion

'The Christian's Faith'

'The Freethinker's Plea'

De Cleyre's late sketches: the anarchist Gothic

'The White Room'

'A Rocket of Iron'

'At the End of the Alley' and 'Alone'

'Where the White Rose Died'

'Literature the Mirror of Man'

Chapter 5: From the agrarian myth to the Mexican Revolution: Voltairine de Cleyre's pastoral anarchism

'Are the green fields gone?'

Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, and the import of American Romantic pastoralism on de Cleyre's anarchism

The right to ownership of the land: individualist v. communist anarchism

The single tax Arden colony: an anarchist experiment?

The Mexican cause: building solidarity across the border

The US financial investment in Mexican territory: the question of land and slavery

'The Mexican Revolution' as told by de Cleyre

Bibliography

Archival materials

Primary sources

Secondary sources

Index.

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Other Format:

Print version: Filanti, Rita Voltairine de Cleyre's Transnational Anarchism

ISBN:

9781526177070

OCLC:

1587165386