... feminist literary activism Literary Industrial Corporate Establishment (LICE) A Woman’s Place Portland Oregon ...

... Konfrontasi White Man, Listen! international communism literary activism Lembaga Kebudajaan Rakjat LEKRA ...

...: this affective work kept feminist bookwomen’s values distinctly different from those of the newly looming chain bookstore menace. As feminist literary activists, bookwomen got books onto publishers’ lists, returned books to print, and actively distributed a feminist literature. The chain bookstores began...

... a literary genealogy of wartime from the Napoleonic era to the present and illuminates the aesthetic purchase of war (and its technologies) as a shaper of distinct literary imaginaries: the sentimental, the humanitarian, the panoptic, and the spectacular. mediated wars visual activism humanitarian...

... a literary genealogy of wartime from the Napoleonic era to the present and illuminates the aesthetic purchase of war (and its technologies) as a shaper of distinct literary imaginaries: the sentimental, the humanitarian, the panoptic, and the spectacular. mediated wars visual activism humanitarian...

... with racial oppression be seen to endorse the views of Konfrontasi ’s ideological opponents, who were associated with the Institute of People’s Culture (LEKRA), a cultural organization aligned with the Communist Party. Konfrontasi White Man, Listen! international communism literary activism...

... This chapter takes up the narrativization of labor, as a form of the reorganization and transformation of rural society. How does labor—in its many rural forms—become the standard against which all social and village activity is measured? The collectization of labor under rural cooperatives...

... Although Wright visited Indonesia as a freelance journalist covering the Bandung Conference, his own activities and experiences in Indonesia were also extensively reported in sections of the Indonesian press. From criticism of Wright’s substandard hotel accommodation on his arrival in Jakarta...

... with the Communist Party. Konfrontasi White Man, Listen! international communism literary activism Lembaga Kebudajaan Rakjat LEKRA Just before he left Indonesia, Wright delivered a lecture at the Balai Budaja in Jakarta that was later published in Indonesian translation in the newspaper...

... of the period after the revolution and the crises that revolutionary China faced, including the extent to which these were manifested and actively addressed in the literature of socialist China. Rather than passively reflecting the challenges and crises, however, Cai argues that the seventeen-year literature...

... Hansen’s disease—evident in medical photography, epidemiological reporting, and literary texts—intensified the quarantine regime established at the Moloka‘i settlements, it also invigorated new patient activisms and other challenges to the colonial regime on the islands. Contrary to some political theories...

... Adela Zamudio, the preeminent female literary figure in Bolivian history, was born in Cochabamba to an upper-class family in 1854. Beginning in the 1880s, in the aftermath of the War of the Pacific, she became an active educator, writer, and public advocate for women and children. She composed...

... on the illusion of the critic’s superiority to the literary text and detachment from the “real world,” where ideologies operate in ways that only a transcendent critical perspective can perceive. A different critical disposition—hopefulness—would bring imaginative idealism back to the study of literature, making...

... 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...

..., where she continued to pursue her public activities to considerable acclaim. Her literary cookbook, Cocina ecléctica (Eclectic Cookery, 1877), featured contributors from around Latin America and a few from Europe, a continent- and ocean-spanning constellation of women who read, reflected, wrote...

... In the 1920s, the novelist, critic, and scion of the Bloomsbury school, David Garnett, produced two extraordinary novellas. Here his self-conscious, literary inheritance achieved a perfect balance with the wildness of his childhood, spent roaming free in the silence of the woods. Snitow’s...

... military occupation—and the reality is that nearly everyone, in some manner, becomes a collaborator. Kashmir Afzal Guru Tabassum Guru collaborators The annual literature festival at Jaipur is one of the largest literary events in the world. This chapter takes a humorous look at the literary...

... of a more socially relevant role for criticism, namely, its capacity for articulating ideals that would make criticism an opportunity for imagining more just social relations. Critique today relies on the illusion of the critic’s superiority to the literary text and detachment from the “real world,” where...