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Fifteen Jugglers, Five Believers: Literary Politics and the Poetics of American Social Movements (The New Historicism : Studies in Cultural Poetics,)

By T. V. Reed

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
1992
ISBN
0520075218, 9780520075214
LCC
PS228.P6 R44 1992
Open Library ID
OL1553383M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1203480 bytes)
Series
The New historicism 22
Pages
261\261
Topic
History
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

T.V. Reed urges an affiliation between literary theory and political actionand 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 strikingly new interpretations of texts in four different genresAgee and Evans's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Ellison's Invisible Man, Mailer's Armies of the Night, and the ecofeminist Women's Pentagon Actions of the early 1980sReed 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.

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