What democracy looks like : a new critical realism for a post-Seattle world
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What democracy looks like : a new critical realism for a post-Seattle world
Rutgers University Press, c2006
- : pbk
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注記
Includes bibliographical references
内容説明・目次
内容説明
The convergence of activists in Seattle during the World Trade Organization meetings captured the headlines in 1999. These demonstrations marked the first major expression on U.S. soil of worldwide opposition to inequality, privatization, and political and intellectual repression. This turning point in world politics coincided with an ongoing quandary in academia-particularly in the humanities where the so-called "death of theory" has left the field on tenuous footing.
In What Democracy Looks Like, the editors and twenty-seven contributors argue that these crises-in the world and the academy-are not unrelated. The essays insist that, in the wake of "Seattle," teachers and scholars of American literature and culture are faced with the challenge of addressing new points of intersection between American studies and literary studies. The narrative, the poem, the essay, and the drama need to be reexamined in ways that are relevant to the urgent social and political issues of our time.
Collectively urging scholars and educators to pay fresh attention to the material conditions out of which literature arises, this path-breaking book inaugurates a new critical realism in American literary studies. It provides a crucial link in the growing need to merge theory and practice with the goal of reconnecting the ivory tower elite to the activists on the street.
目次
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: A New Critical Realism
- Amy Schrager Lang and Cecelia Tichi
- A Short World History of ""Seattle"": 1994-2005
- Body Count/Bodies Count
- 1. Working-Class Actuality: ""The Great Unexamined""
- Janet Zandy
- 2. Crane and the Body Count
- Cindy Weinstein
- 3. Why Set a Free Man Free? Mark Twain, Empire and Gender
- Amy Kaplan. 4. Welcoming the Unbidden: The Case for Human Biodiversity Rosemarie Garland Thomson
- 5. Consumer Compassion: The ""Face"" of Global AIDS Roger Hallas Experiments in Reality
- 7. ""There is evil in the world an I'm going to do something about it"": William Faulkner as Political Resource Joseph R. Urgo
- 8. Rhetoric, Politics, and Ethics in Sandra Cisneros's Caramelo James Phelan
- 9. Fear and Loathing in Globalization Fredric Jameson
- 10. Hawthorne and Class Teresa Goddu
- 11. Experiments in Reality: Wycoff's Workers Jonathan Prude The Commons
- 12. Cooper and the Tragedy of the Commons Dana D. Nelson
- 13. Looks the Same to Me: Post Seattle, Post Sealth Paula Gunn-Allen
- 14. Agriculture, Empire, and Ecology: Re-Farming the New World Order Scott Hicks
- 15. History's Place Markers in Memory: 1954 and 1999 Thadious M. Davis
- 16. Along the Border Bill V. Mullen
- 17. Tomato Pickers and the Challenges of Today's Classrooms Judith Scott Girgus
- 18. Langston Hughes on the Historically White Campus Joanne M. Braxton Art and Activism
- 19. Where the Language Discovers Itself Carolyn Forche
- 20. Deep Water, No Life Rafts George Saunders
- 21. Not Yet Global Citizens Laurie Garret
- 22. The Anti-Tribalist Identity-Based Movement for Pluralist Democracy Tony Kushner Another World is Possible
- 23. Neither Capitalist Nor American: The Democracy as Social Movement Michael Denning
- 24. Ivory Towers, Velvet Gloves Daniel Lang-Levitsky
- 25. The Status of Intellectual Authority and the Promise of Democracy Silvio Torres-Saillant
- 26. Teaching After the Battle in Seattle: This is What Plutocracy Looks Like George Lipsitz Notes on Contributors.
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