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First of the Year: 2009 - Volume II (Hardcover)
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First of the Year: 2009 - Volume II (Hardcover)
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This is the second volume in the First of the Year Series.
Contributors like Armond White, Philip Levine, Donna Gaines,
Lawrence Goodwyn, Irving Louis Horowitz, Charles O'Brien, Fredric
Smoler, Paul Berman, and Amiri Baraka are back (and blazing). And
there are important new voices in the First mix, such as Vincent
Harding, Roxane Johnson, and Bob Levin. If there is a leitmotif to
this edition, it is the election and inauguration of Barack Obama
as the first African-American president. First aims to be up to the
minute of this moment. As Benj DeMott notes "a glance at this
volume confirms the margin is still the center for us." And that
margin stretches from Harlem to the world. There are tales of edgy
sojourns in Afghanistan, Thailand, and South Africa. The volume
also has a Question & Answer with Ousmane Sembi, who taught
Africans to resist "elements of received culture-those fixed rules
and values which nobody but those on the margins dare to question."
A second interview with Adam Hochschild celebrates the Englishman
who invented abolition, and an African-American original who coined
the phrase "crimes against humanity." The volume includes a protest
against the Israeli war machine by Uri Avnery who has long been a
creative outsider in his own society. It makes the case that
American ideologues (on both extremes) keep getting the Middle East
wrong because they cannot grasp the complexities of any country,
including their own. First of the Year's minority angles of vision
will help readers see with new eyes. It will help their hearing
too. The volume has plenty of music writing marked by loving
attention to details of pop performances. In short, this collection
reflects its editor; direct, unafraid, urban, and entirely
contemporary.
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Imprint: |
Routledge
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
October 2017 |
First published: |
2010 |
Editors: |
Benj Demott
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
307 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-138-52360-9 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Politics & government >
General
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LSN: |
1-138-52360-7 |
Barcode: |
9781138523609 |
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