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... sensibility, Marrs demonstrates, not only leads him to conjoin the South's rebellion to an extended series of upheavals, from the bloody coups of ancient Rome to the peasant rebellions of medieval France, but also stimulates the very form of his poetry, in which damaged rhymes, broken meters, and twisted...

... his family’s poverty and lack of education as part of this effort to construct a Filipino peasant identity.5 Despite the nos- talgia of his nativist focus, Bulosan engages Western discourse and colonial policy by putting...

... to the laboring and peasant populations.13 These vernacu- lar boardinghouses amounted to a collective of independently owned and operated female businesses that provided a striking visual con- trast to housing and business space provided by the male-dominated Panama Railroad Company to its white American...

... of her might, compared with which his own is diminished to insignifi- cance, only the misery, peril, and distress that would compass the man who was thrown to its mercy. So the simple-minded, and, for the most part, intelligent Savoyard peasant, (as Herr von Sassure relates,) unhesitatingly...

... aestheticism and fascism were not only real but proudly advertised. The Pisan Cantos Kant, Pound, and the Saturday Review 539 wore its politics on its sleeves. Canto LXXIV begins by mourning the deathofMussolini: The enormous tragedy of the dream in the peasant’s bent...

... from his environment: in preparation for his trip, McKay tells us, “I did a lot of planting. With the help of the peasants I planted yams and conga peas, black-­eyed peas and red peas as well as sweet potatoes, yams and like things.”20 Because McKay financed his journey to become a poet...

...- piction of nearly all peasants in Banana Bottom, in fact, exposes his own in- ternalization of the very Western ideas of superiority that he wishes to de- nounce Marshall, in her treatment of the adults in Brown Girl, Brownstones...

... geographies over those of Asia and then denying differences between the class politics of Chicana/o migrant laborers and Vietnamese peasants. In this sense, Vietnam Campesino does much more than link Chicana/os and Asians within global structures of US hegemony across distinct geopolitical spaces...

...—and disempowered black men in a social order that simultaneously granted and euphemized the seigniorial slave-master’s sexual access to his slaves. Thus, in her foreword to Tar Baby , Morrison ( 2004 , xii) describes the Tar Baby as “the sticky mediator between master and peasant, plantation owner and slave...

... in understanding history as progressively lonelier stages of development toward self-realization, it also has the broadly Catholic immigrant-ethnic charge of Old World tribalism, peasant skepticism, and familial blood-obsession. Some...

... established social sciences recognized in one another a similar attentiveness to the facts of ethnic life, and that these discourses borrowed concepts and evidence from one another during this time. William Thomas and Florian Znaniecki’s The Polish Peasant in Europe and America, for example, an important...

... speak like a book’’ (64). Thus, the flow of sympathy that seems to encircle middle-class (white) reader and peasant (black) folk in the photograph is revealed by the text to be short-circuited at various points. Recognition of the black folk as part of the national family, in other words, must...

... the white Southern elite with impoverished Irish peasants, as victims of an ineluctable imperial-capitalist modernity, is perhaps most evi- dent in a scene in which Scarlett compares the siege of Atlanta to the massacre at Drogheda and declares that William Tecumseh Sher- man is worse than Oliver...

... in the diaspora, the migration of about 900,000 Francophones, overwhelmingly of peasant background, to the United States mainly between 1840 and 1930;9 in 1901, 37 percent of all French Canadians lived in the United States, 24 percent of them in New England (about 55 percent lived in Quebec...

...” characters are condensations of, on one hand, the “antecapitalist” values that displaced peasants carry with them to industrial spaces and, on the other, the “lumpen” tendency to elude categorization and assimilation to social norms (108). The theme of doubly marginalized subjects recurs in the final chapter...

... revitalization, Wang writes: “The new socialist countryside will be filled with peasants starting e-commerce businesses, small-scale manufacturing, new data centers, and young entrepreneurial workers returning to their rural homes. Rural Revitalization envisions the use of blockchain and mobile payment...

... and concealment. Fernand Braudel explains that the face-to-face trading practices of the public market, where peasants arrived from the coun- try to exchange goods for money with which they in turn purchased other goods, were...

... or peasant, represented as simpler in nature than the poet and thus often politically marginal. According to William Empson, the sophisticated poet has a ‘‘double attitude’’ toward the shepherd, feel- ing ‘‘in one way...

... offered an unambiguous, if unsettling, response: one can (and should), like the famous author, renounce one’s claims to wealth, title, and social privilege, abandon the profession of writing, and commit oneself to living as a peasant. Writing from the “Editor’s Study” at Harper’s Monthly , Howells ( 1993...

... Wedding (1933), Guillén’s poems Brief Mention 205 about Cuban liberation (1948), and Roumain’s story of Haitian peasant revolt in Masters of the Dew (1947)—underscore Hughes’s commitment to global liberation. The Humane Particulars...