American protest literature / edited by Zoe Trodd ; foreword by John Stauffer ; afterword by Howard Zinn.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Trodd, Zoe, editor.

Stauffer, John, 1965- writer of foreword.

Zinn, Howard, 1922-2010, writer of foreword.

Series:

The John Harvard Library

Language:

Egyptian

Subjects (All):

Radicalism--United States.

Radicalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (572 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008.

Summary:

"I like a little rebellion now and then"-so wrote Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Adams, enlisting in a tradition that throughout American history has led writers to rage and reason, prophesy and provoke. This is the first anthology to collect and examine an American literature that holds the nation to its highest ideals, castigating it when it falls short and pointing the way to a better collective future. American Protest Literature presents sources from eleven protest movements-political, social, and cultural-from the Revolution to abolition to gay rights to antiwar protest. Each section reprints documents from the original phase of the movement as well as evidence of its legacy in later times. Informative headnotes place the selections in historical context and draw connections with other writings within the anthology and beyond. Sources include a wide variety of genres-pamphlets, letters, speeches, sermons, legal documents, poems, short stories, photographs, posters-and a range of voices from prophetic to outraged to sorrowful, from U.S. Presidents to the disenfranchised. Together they provide an enlightening and inspiring survey of this most American form of literature.

Contents:

Declaring independence

Unvanishing the Indian

Little books that started a big war

This land is herland

Capitalism's discontents

Strange fruit

Dust tracks on the road

The dungeon shook

A problem that had no name

The word is our

From Saigon to Baghdad.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-674-25795-2

OCLC:

1256236761