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Postmodern realist fiction uses realism-disrupting literary
techniques to make interventions into the real social conditions of
our time. It seeks to capture the complex, fragmented nature of
contemporary experience while addressing crucial issues like income
inequality, immigration, the climate crisis, terrorism,
ever-changing technologies, shifting racial, sex and gender roles,
and the rise of new forms of authoritarianism. A lucid,
comprehensive introduction to the genre as well as to a wide
variety of voices, this book discusses more than forty writers from
a diverse range of backgrounds, and over several decades, with
special attention to 21st-century novels. Writers covered include:
Kathy Acker, Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche, Julia Alvarez, Sherman
Alexie, Gloria Anzaldua, Margaret Atwood, Toni Cade Bambara, A.S.
Byatt, Octavia Butler, Angela Carter, Ana Castillo, Don DeLillo,
Junot Diaz, Jennifer Egan, Awaeki Emezi, Mohsin Hamid, Jessica
Hagedorn, Maxine Hong Kingston, Ursula K. Le Guin, Daisy Johnson,
Bharati Mukherjee, Toni Morrison, Vladimir Nabokov, Tommy Orange,
Ruth Ozeki, Ishmael Reed, Eden Robinson, Salman Rushdie, Jean Rhys,
Leslie Marmon Silko, Art Spiegelman, Kurt Vonnegut, and Jeannette
Winterson, among others.
A second edition of the classic introduction to arts in social
movements, fully updated and now including Black Lives Matter,
Occupy Wall Street, and new digital and social media forms of
cultural resistance The Art of Protest, first published in 2006,
was hailed as an "essential" introduction to progressive social
movements in the United States and praised for its "fluid writing
style" and "well-informed and insightful" contribution (Choice
Magazine). Now thoroughly revised and updated, this new edition of
T. V. Reed's acclaimed work offers engaging accounts of ten key
progressive movements in postwar America, from the African American
struggle for civil rights beginning in the 1950s to Occupy Wall
Street and Black Lives Matter in the twenty-first century. Reed
focuses on the artistic activities of these movements as a lively
way to frame progressive social change and its cultural legacies:
civil rights freedom songs, the street drama of the Black Panthers,
revolutionary murals of the Chicano movement, poetry in women's
movements, the American Indian Movement's use of film and video,
anti-apartheid rock music, ACT UP's visual art, digital arts in
#Occupy, Black Lives Matter rap videos, and more. Through the
kaleidoscopic lens of artistic expression, Reed reveals how
activism profoundly shapes popular cultural forms. For students and
scholars of social change and those seeking to counter reactionary
efforts to turn back the clock on social equality and justice, the
new edition of The Art of Protest will be both informative and
inspiring.
Imagine the civil rights movement without freedom songs and the
politics of women's movements without poetry. Or, more difficult
yet, imagine an America unaffected by the cultural expressions and
forms of the twentieth-century social movements that have shaped
our nation. The first broad overview of social movements and the
distinctive cultural forms that express and helped shape them, The
Art of Protest shows the vital importance of these movements to
American culture. In comparative accounts of movements beginning
with the African American civil rights movement of the 1950s and
1960s and running through the Internet-driven movement for global
justice ("Will the revolution be cybercast?") of the twenty-first
century, T. V. Reed enriches our understanding of protest and its
cultural expression. Reed explores the street drama of the Black
Panthers, the revolutionary murals of the Chicano movement, the
American Indian Movement's use of film and video, rock music and
the struggles against famine and apartheid, ACT UP's use of visual
art in the campaign against AIDS, and the literature of
environmental justice. Throughout, Reed employs the concept of
culture in three interrelated ways: by examining social movements
as sub- or countercultures; by looking at poetry, painting, music,
murals, film, and fiction in and around social movements; and by
considering the ways in which the cultural texts generated by
resistance movements have reshaped the contours of the wider
American culture. The United States is a nation that began with a
protest. Through the kaleidoscopic lens of artistic and cultural
expression, Reed reveals how activism continues to remake our
world.
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? Â 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.
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