Literature and Liberation
Title | Literature and Liberation PDF eBook |
Author | Arnold Kettle |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | English fiction |
ISBN | 9780719025419 |
Freedom from Liberation
Title | Freedom from Liberation PDF eBook |
Author | Gerard Aching |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2015-08-07 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 025301705X |
“Delves into the life and work of Juan Francisco Manzano, the enslaved Cuban poet and author of Spanish America’s only known slave narrative . . . Valuable.” —Choice By exploring the complexities of enslavement in the autobiography of Cuban slave-poet Juan Francisco Manzano (1797–1854), Gerard Aching complicates the universally recognized assumption that a slave’s foremost desire is to be freed from bondage. As the only slave narrative in Spanish that has surfaced to date, Manzano’s autobiography details the daily grind of the vast majority of slaves who sought relief from the burden of living under slavery. Aching combines historical narrative and literary criticism to take the reader beyond Manzano’s text to examine the motivations behind anticolonial and antislavery activism in pre-revolution Cuba, when Cuba’s Creole bourgeoisie sought their own form of freedom from the colonial arm of Spain.
As Black as Resistance
Title | As Black as Resistance PDF eBook |
Author | William C. Anderson |
Publisher | AK Press |
Pages | 67 |
Release | 2018-06-05 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1849353158 |
Both theoretical and pragmatic, this refreshingly savvy book charts a course for the Black Lives Matter generation. In the United States, both struggles against oppression and the gains made by various movements for equality have often been led by Black people. Still, though progress has regularly been fueled by radical Black efforts, liberal politics are based on ideas and practices that impede the continued progress of Black America. Building on their original essay “The Anarchism of Blackness,” Samudzi and Anderson show the centrality of anti-Blackness to the foundational violence of the United States and to the racial structures upon which it is based as a nation. Racism is not, they say, simply a product of capitalism. Rather, we must understand how anti-Blackness shaped the contours and logics of European colonialism and its many legacies, to the extent that “Blackness” and “citizenship” are exclusive categories. As Black As Resistance makes the case for a new program of self-defense and transformative politics for Black Americans, one rooted in an anarchistic framework that the authors liken to the Black experience itself. This book argues against compromise and negotiation with intolerance. It is a manifesto for everyone who is ready to continue progressing towards liberation. “As Black as Resistance is an urgently needed book . . . a call to action through an embrace of the anarchy of blackness as a recognition and a refusal of the deathly logics of liberalism and consumption. In the face of the ever expanding carceral state, levels of inequality, environmental degradation, and resurgent fascism, this book offers a map to imagining the liberated futures that we can and must and do make.” —Christina Sharpe, author of In the Wake: On Blackness and Being
Liberation Historiography
Title | Liberation Historiography PDF eBook |
Author | John Ernest |
Publisher | Univ of North Carolina Press |
Pages | 452 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780807855218 |
As the story of the United States was recorded in pages written by white historians, early-nineteenth-century African American writers faced the task of piecing together a counterhistory: an approach to history that would present both the necessity of and
Literature and Liberation
Title | Literature and Liberation PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 88 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Women's Liberation and Literature
Title | Women's Liberation and Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Elaine Showalter |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P |
Pages | 360 |
Release | 1971 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN |
Examples of fiction, poetry and drama dealing with the feminine experience and historical, psychological and sociological statements about women.
Animating Black and Brown Liberation
Title | Animating Black and Brown Liberation PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Datcher |
Publisher | State University of New York Press |
Pages | 182 |
Release | 2019-04-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1438473419 |
Animating Black and Brown Liberation introduces a vital new tool for reading American literatures. Rooted in both ancient Egyptian ideas about life and cutting-edge theories of animacy, or levels of aliveness, this tool—ankhing—enables Michael Datcher to examine the ways African American and Latinx literatures respond to and ultimately work to resist hegemonic forces of neoliberalism and state-sponsored oppression. Weaving together close readings and politically informed philosophical reflection, Datcher considers the work of writer-activists Toni Cade Bambara, Cherríe Moraga, Gloria Anzaldúa, June Jordan, Salvador Plascencia, and Ishmael Reed, in light of theoretical interventions by Jane Bennett, Mel Y. Chen, Bruno Latour, Michel Foucault, Paulo Freire, and Erica R. Edwards. How, he asks, can cultural production positively influence Black and Brown material conditions and mobilize collective action "off the page"? How can art-based counterpublics provide a foundation for Black and Brown community organizing? What emerges from Datcher's innovative analysis is a frank assessment of the links between embodied experiences of racialization, as well as a distinctive vision of twentieth- and twenty-first-century American literature as a repository of emancipatory strategies with real-world applications.