Fifteen Jugglers, Five Believers - Literary Politics and the Poetics of American Social Movements (Hardcover)

T. V. Reed urges an affiliation between literary theory and political action—and between political action and literary theory. What can the "new literary theory" learn from "new social movements," and what can social activists learn from poststructuralism, new historicism, feminist theory, and neomarxism?   In striking interpretations of texts in four different genres—James Agee and Walker Evans’s Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, Norman Mailer's Armies of the Night, and the ecofeminist Women's Pentagon Actions of the early 1980s—Reed shows how reading literary texts for their political strategies and reading political movements as texts can help us overcome certain rhetorical traps that have undermined American efforts to combat racism, sexism, and economic inequality.  This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1992.

General

Imprint:	University of California Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics, 22
Release date:	February 2022
First published:	1992
Authors:	T.V Reed
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	246
ISBN-13:	978-0-520-35662-7
Categories:	Books Promotions
LSN:	0-520-35662-4
Barcode:	9780520356627

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