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1	Civil Disobediences: Poetics and Politics in Action more books like this by Lisa Birman (Editor), Anne Waldman (Editor) add to wishlist As cultural absurdities, apathy-inspiring ambient noise, and political and ecological disasters threaten the 21st-century world, art's role in engaging society and coalescing dissent becomes more apparent and more urgent. "Civil Disobediences" offers a manual for understanding poetry's history and enacting its ultimate power to dismantle and ... see all copies from $4.49! new only from $11.10! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Emerson's Ghosts: Literature, Politics, and the Making of Americanists more books like this by Randall Fuller add to wishlist It is increasingly commonplace to find scholars who circle back to Ralph Waldo Emerson and his intellectual heirs as a way of better understanding contemporary social and aesthetic contexts. Why does Emerson's cultural legacy continue to influence writers so forcefully? In this innovative study Randall Fuller examines the way influential twentieth ... see all copies from $25.00! new only from $45.69! \| first editions
3	Revolutionary Memory: Recovering the Poetry of the American Left more books like this by Cary Nelson add to wishlist Revolutionary Memory is the most important book yet to be published about the vital tradition of leftwing American poetry. As Cary Nelson shows, it is not only our image of the past but also our sense of the present and future that changes when we recover these revolutionary memories. Making a forceful case for political poetry as poetry, Nelson ... see all copies from $15.95! new only from $22.95! \| first editions
4	Turncoats, Traitors, and Fellow Travelers: Culture and Politics of the Early Cold War more books like this by Arthur Redding add to wishlist The Cold War was unique in the way films, books, television shows, colleges and universities, and practices of everyday life were enlisted to create American political consensus. This coercion fostered a seemingly hegemonic, nationally unified perspective devoted to spreading a capitalist, socially conservative notion of freedom throughout the ... see all copies from $27.45! new only from $57.83! \| first editions \| SVS
5	A Concise Companion to Postwar Amerian Literature and Culture more books like this by Josephine G Hendin (Editor) add to wishlist This Concise Companion is a guide to the creative output of the United States in the postwar period, in its diverse energies, shapes and forms. This work: embraces diversity, covering Vietnam literature, gay and lesbian literature, American Jewish fiction, Italian American literature, Irish American writing, emergent ethnic literatures, African ... see all copies from $15.75! new only from $40.82! \| SVS
6	Strangers at Home: American Ethnic Modernism Between the World Wars more books like this by Rita Keresztesi add to wishlist "Strangers at Home" reframes the way we conceive of the modernist literature that appeared in the period between the two world wars. This provocative work shows that a body of texts written by ethnic writers during this period poses a challenge to conventional notions of America and American modernism. By engaging with modernist literary studies ... see all copies from $20.56! new only from $26.64! \| SVS
7	Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov: The Poetry of Politics, the Politics of Poetry more books like this by Albert Gelpi, PH.D. (Editor), Robert J Bertholf (Editor) add to wishlist This collection of essays, written for this volume and often using unpublished and archival materials, converges around the usually close and intense relationship between Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov, two of the most important and remarkable American poets in the second half of the twentieth century. Their association, played out in their ... see all copies from $17.46! new only from $17.46! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Messiah of the New Technique: John Howard Lawson, Communism, and American Theatre, 1923-1937 more books like this by Jonathan L Chambers add to wishlist "Messiah of the New Technique: John Howard Lawson, Communism, and American Theatre, 1923-1937" is a critical and political biography and a cultural and social history that focuses on Lawson's career in the theatre. Using a materialist methodology, Jonathan L. Chambers emphasizes the evolution and interplay of the playwright's artistic vision and ... see all copies from $20.94! new only from $50.06!
9	Stone Tower: The Political Theater of Arthur Miller more books like this by Jeffrey D Mason add to wishlist This book offers a revealing look at Arthur Miller's political sensibilities as evidenced in his dramatic works and other writings.For more than five decades critics have acclaimed Arthur Miller as a social dramatist. Jeffrey D. Mason's "Stone Tower" offers a fresh appraisal of Miller that clearly establishes him as an essentially political ... see all copies from $31.49! new only from $49.50!
10	Harlem Crossroads: Black Writers and the Photograph in the Twentieth Century more books like this by Sara Blair add to wishlist The Harlem riot of 1935 not only signaled the end of the Harlem Renaissance; it made black America's cultural capital an icon for the challenges of American modernity. Luring photographers interested in socially conscious, journalistic, and aesthetic representation, post-Renaissance Harlem helped give rise to America's full-blown image culture and ... see all copies from $36.80! new only from $40.25! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Ethnic Modernism more books like this by Werner Sollors add to wishlist In the first half of the twentieth century, the United States moved from the periphery to the center of global cultural production. At the same time, technologies of dissemination evolved rapidly, and versions of modernism emerged as dominant art forms. How did African American, European immigrant, and other minority writers take part in these ... see all copies from $15.21! new only from $15.21!
12 view cover	New Deal Theater: The Vernacular Tradition in American Political Theater more books like this by Ilka Saal add to wishlist This book analyzes the political theater of the 1930s, establishing its aesthetics as an important alternative to the dominant European modernist paradigm of the time. see all copies from $72.35! new only from $72.35! \| SVS
13 view cover	Black Writers, White Publishers: Marketplace Politics in Twentieth-Century African American Literature more books like this by John K Young, PH.D. add to wishlist Jean Toomer's "Cane" was advertised as "a book about Negroes by a Negro," despite his request not to promote the book along such racial lines. Nella Larsen switched the title of her second novel from "Nig" to "Passing," because an editor felt the original title "might be too inflammatory." In order to publish his first novel as a Book-of-the-Month ... see all copies from $37.00! new only from $44.99! \| SVS
14 view cover	Everybody's America: Thomas Pynchon, Race, and the Cultures of Postmodernism more books like this by David Witzling add to wishlist "Everybody's America" reassesses Pynchon's literary career in order to explain the central role played by the racialization of American culture in the postmodernist deconstruction of subjectivity and literary authority and in the crisis in white liberal culture. It charts the evolution of both these cultural transformations from Pynchon's early ... see all copies from $105.56! new only from $105.56!
15 view cover	Black Fascisms: African American Literature and Culture Between the Wars more books like this by Mark Christian Thompson add to wishlist In this provocative new book, Mark Christian Thompson addresses the startling fact that many African American intellectuals in the 1930s sympathized with fascism, seeing in its ideology a means of envisioning new modes of African American political resistance. Thompson surveys the work and thought of several authors and asserts that their ... see all copies from $9.39! new only from $17.19! \| SVS
16 view cover	Representations of American Slavery in Post-Civil Rights Fiction and Film: How Literature Shapes Politics more books like this by Camilla Elisabeth Dacey-Groth add to wishlist This study discusses representations of slavery in post-civil-rights fiction and film as reflections of public policy and opinion concerning race in the United States. These texts and films are used to discuss the twentieth-century historiography of slavery, tying together popular culture and historical studies to important political and cultural ... see all copies from $122.49! new only from $122.49!
17 view cover	Dirty Wars: Landscape, Power, and Waste in Western American Literature more books like this by John Beck add to wishlist Since World War II, the American West has become the nation's military arsenal, proving ground, and disposal site. Through a wide-ranging discussion of recent literature produced in and about the West, "Dirty Wars" explores how the region's iconic landscapes, invested with myths of national virtue, have obscured the West's crucial role in a post ... see all copies from $99.00! new only from $99.00!

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