... Vuyk’s November 1955 review of The Chain in the Heart by Hubert Creekmore extends the Indonesian engagement with the theme of protest literature, which Wright had raised in his Indonesian lectures. Mistakenly identifying Creekmore as an African American writer, Vuyk characterizes his novel...

... protest novel African American literature popular fiction James Baldwin African American expatriates ...

... of protest literature, which Wright had raised in his Indonesian lectures. Mistakenly identifying Creekmore as an African American writer, Vuyk characterizes his novel as an inferior imitation of Wright’s “inspirational” Black Boy and Native Son , suggesting that Creekmore wrote The Chain in the Heart...

... her poem “To Be Born a Man,” with its hard-hitting, mocking lines about gender discrimination, early in her writing career. Her epistolary novel Íntimas (Close Friends , 1913), written in a Romantic literary style that diverged from both the realist and modernist genres of the day, was a “novel about...

... Campus Witches is the name of a group/network of young feminists located at universities in Turkey. The group was born out of the Gezi Park protests of 2013. Their appearance in the feminist movement is novel in that they make up the first and only feminist group identifying themselves...

... wa Thiong’o’s novel Devil on the Cross (1980). ethnomusicology anticolonialism archive African diaspora Frantz Fanon Ngugi wa Thiong’o This chapter analyzes the critique of U.S. empire by socially conscious South Asian American (or desi) rappers in the United States and the role...

... Oil lives in a kind of ethical blind spot. The fuel drives so much in industry, agriculture, and personal life, of course. Oddly, then, literature and film have mostly left it alone. One can count on one hand the great oil novels written in all languages. Substances ranging from diamonds...

... land speculation Puta activist Gabriela Leite cites a line from Manuel Bandeira’s poem “Poética” in one of her first writings about politics, published in 1991 in the Brazilian Prostitute Network’s newspaper, Beijo da rua . Reflecting on a failed protest against a rule prohibiting US Navy...

... the patriarchy. Deitsch idisi valkyries braucherei patriarchy Campus Witches is the name of a group/network of young feminists located at universities in Turkey. The group was born out of the Gezi Park protests of 2013. Their appearance in the feminist movement is novel in that they make up...

... in a Romantic literary style that diverged from both the realist and modernist genres of the day, was a “novel about women for women,” she said. She protested the limits placed on young women’s educational possibilities and advocated for civil marriage and divorce. Against what she called “patriarchal...

... and impoverished peasants who had migrated to the cities, swelling the unemployed or underemployed urban population living on the edge of subsistence, contributed to the powerful popular protests against the neoliberal model. The Trade Union Federation of Bolivian Mineworkers ( fstmb ) held an emergency...

... coca” policy aimed at eradicating 100 percent of the coca plantations in the Chapare. In protest, thousands of coca growers marched in the city of Chapare and engaged in confrontations with the police. During the violence, pro-coca demonstrators seized, tortured, and killed two policemen. Congress...

... Methodology,” suggests that fandom and fan culture might offer a novel lens through which to rethink intersections of art and identity outside of traditional exhibition formats, art institutions, and circuits. In addition, this chapter will also consider fandom as a strategy for reaching more diverse...

... as Mariano Melgarejo’s prior attempt, in the 1860s, to sell off community lands met with Indian resistance, so did the land survey commissions in the early 1880s. In 1881, a new government resolution was forced to grant communities the option of ongoing collective title. In 1883, in response to protests...

..., the state sought to prevent the broad alliance between peasants, workers, and the left that had made possible the revolution in the early 1950s. The speech was given shortly after the so-called Massacre in the Valley, in which the government killed at least seventy peasants, who were protesting...