... poetry books embodied performance independent publishing typography communal engagement ...

... This chapter explores the often overlooked dimension of Nuyorican poets’ engagement with visual art, particularly via the concept of the book and its intersection with distinct modes of independent publishing, performance, and activism. It sheds light on the transformative ways Nuyorican poets...

...All of the Above<subtitle>Diasporican Aesthetics</subtitle> This chapter explores the often overlooked dimension of Nuyorican poets’ engagement with visual art, particularly via the concept of the book and its intersection with distinct modes of independent publishing, performance...

... In this essay, Yan Lianke reflects on the regime of literary censorship in contemporary China. He notes that this regime has not only affected what he is able to publish in China, but has also helped shape the way that he is perceived, particularly by foreign readers. He emphasizes that although...

... Chapter 5 documents the culmination of U.S. tensions within both feminism and the book industry. Faced with chain bookstores and publishers making illegal deals that would put independent bookstores out of business, bookwomen put their substantial feminist literary activist skills to work...

... The final chapter turns to Phillis Wheatley. Reading archival letters and other records, it traces Wheatley's evolution from a poet writing in slavery, to her achievement of some degree of celebrity, to her existence as an impoverished free woman, unable to find a publisher for her second book...

... Oʻahu legend, the moʻolelo of Hāmanalau; the longest version of the moʻolelo of Kana and Nīheu; a multipart geography of Molokai; and a history of the independent Hawaiian press from 1860 to 1878. Joseph Kānepuʻu Hawaiian newspapers Hawaiian geography Hawaiian-language literature Hawaiian...

... supporting act. Breaking began to attract more attention when Sally Banes and photographer Martha Cooper published the first feature on the form in the Village Voice . Following an introduction to Malcolm McLaren, Michael Holman staged a Zulu Nation warm-up show at the Ritz for McLaren’s band Bow Wow Wow...

...Market Circuits and Enclave Extraction The Villager (el Aldeano) was an anonymous author who gave us some of the most important socioeconomic descriptions of life in early post-independence Bolivia. He was, however, far from being the provincial he claimed to be, explicitly quoting...

... of the most original and independent cultural critics in America from the 1960s until her death in 2006. second wave feminism rock critic pro-sex feminism feminist writer radical feminism Ellen Willis This review revisits Firestone’s key text in the history of the second wave, twenty-five...

... (1940). Roberts’s Mediterranean opens disjunctively onto anticolonial figures elsewhere: Roberts’s fellow West Indian C. L. R. James as well as the “fathers” of Cuban and Filipino independence, José Martí and José Rizal. These four anticolonialists are case studies in resistant comparison, seemingly...

... capital Lima. Dissatisfied with the debilitating national boundaries defined at independence, Santa Cruz believed that Bolivia needed to be united with Peru, as it had been earlier in the colonial period. Taking advantage of political divisions in Peru in the 1830s, he set about creating his grand...

... was the cosmopolitan intellectual Gustavo Navarro, who took the public name Tristán Marof. His time in Europe in the 1920s radicalized him, and in 1926, just before his return to Bolivia, he published The Justice of the Inca , a stirring case for revolution in Bolivia and Latin America that found common ground...

... monument built in 1803 that served as home to the Portuguese imperial family when Rio de Janeiro was the seat of the global Portuguese Empire and after independence from Portugal in 1822. In 1892, the palace was transformed into the National Museum. This edifice was unique, for it also served...

... later, “The Message” by Grandmaster Flash &amp; the Furious Five carried rap into social realist territory. Steven Hager focused on Bambaataa rather than Flash when he published the first major article on hip hop (in the Village Voice ) in September. Baker and Robie went on to lead the citywide charge...