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...Tina Young Choi [email protected] The Activist Humanist: Form and Method in the Climate Crisis . By Caroline Levine . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2023 . xv + 202 pp. Copyright © 2025 by University of Washington 2025 Reviews The Activist Humanist: Form...

... participation in transatlantic slavery and counters the historical amnesia that Spanish culture frequently displays toward its colonial past. An early forerunner in Spain’s long-delayed path to recognizing its history of slavery, La indiana forms part of activist efforts in Catalonia, the autonomous community...

..., Arabic, Darija, and Tamazight) and literary and testimonial forms (novels, essays, manifestos, poetry, and visual art) that together make up an alternative archive of decolonization. Borrowing Lia Brozgal’s productive notion of the “anarchive” (a corpus of texts produced by artists and activists...

..., this revolt drew those in search of opportunity to the metropolis in the early 1960s. Justin Jesty’s book traces the activities of artists, activists, and educators from 1945 to 1960 (a period from the end of the Asia-Pacific War to mass protests against the Japan–United States alliance) who intervened...

... is associated with its central thesis. Henley is represented as an “activist”-a man with a gusto for great books, great men, and great living. An obvious foil for aesthetic “passivists” like Rossetti and Wilde, in short, an English Whitman, he is the child of Byron and the father of Kipling. His...

... identification with the Father (an Indian activist); an authority struggle with the Father, who does not want his daughter to become literate, as it will mean her divorce from the community; the death of the Father at the hands of the army, which leads to the possibility of reidentification...

... does all the plangency of this manda- rin activist thinking of earlier epochs go? Has it really all been defeated because the intending subject has the computer as prosthesis? Was Ayn Rand the prophet of the philosophy of computation when in the nal...

... Kimball, and George Will, Bromwich dissociates himself from the Right. As his title suggests, he attacks them in the name of what he calls “real politics” ( 236). American leftists may well find something attractive in Bromwich’s scorn for an “activist tone in scholarship” that “has been...

... a coherent theory, methodology, or movement, its practitioners can be divided into two groups according to how they conceive of the relationship between form and history. Those whom she calls “activist formalists want to restore to today’s reductive reinscription of historical reading its original focus...

... with lyric poetry. Differences in the reaction to exile were great. Motifs in the poems of the political activists, Brecht, Becher, Weinert, were drawn largely from events of the time. Many poets, to be sure, gave expression to their outraged humanity, but there were others, like Else Lasker...

... in the poems of the political activists, Brecht, Becher, Weinert, were drawn largely from events of the time. Many poets, to be sure, gave expression to their outraged humanity, but there were others, like Else Lasker-Schuler, whose creative life was relatively unaffected by exile. Some, like...

...), and “The Impotence of the Heart” (the artist’s self-hatred, culminating in the suicide of art). “The New Man” includes chapters on “Anti-Zarathustra,” “The Revolt” (i.e., the intellectual’s Wadlung from self-abasement to human dignity; the way to the community), and “The Recoil” (from the activist...

... was a political tac- tic that could unite readers interested in disparate causes. Because the protest lay in disseminating the text rather than in simply reading its content, activists could use a poem whose themes seemed more ambiguous than the message they wished to communicate. In the context...

... of communism” (48). This is not borne out by the evidence that Popescu herself presents, which reveals no consistent aesthetic or ideological divisions separating these Cold War dynamics. A case in point is the South African card-carrying communist and antiapartheid activist Alex La Guma, who uses a naturalist...

... If You Can’t Be Free, Be a Mystery and Clawing at the Limits of Cool ), to the ongoing legacy of Black feminist and progressive activists in the early twentieth century (in her books Harlem Nocturne and Beloved Sisters and Loving Friends ). The range of her work gives prominence to texts both...

... of the Berlin Wall in November and F. W. de Klerk’s landmark speech in the Houses of Parliament in Cape Town on February , The Soviet bloc had provided many antiapartheid activists, thinkers, and writers with models and inspiration, and it gured as the most...

... of the Berlin Wall in November and F. W. de Klerk’s landmark speech in the Houses of Parliament in Cape Town on February , The Soviet bloc had provided many antiapartheid activists, thinkers, and writers with models and inspiration, and it gured as the most...

... in the Houses of Parliament in Cape Town on February , The Soviet bloc had provided many antiapartheid activists, thinkers, and writers with models and inspiration, and it gured as the most prominent bogeyman for apartheid ideologues who warned of the Rooi...

... of the Berlin Wall in November and F. W. de Klerk’s landmark speech in the Houses of Parliament in Cape Town on February , The Soviet bloc had provided many antiapartheid activists, thinkers, and writers with models and inspiration, and it gured as the most...

... provided many antiapartheid activists, thinkers, and writers with models and inspiration, and it gured as the most prominent bogeyman for apartheid ideologues who warned of the Rooi Gevaar (red peril) posed by the “godless communists” and who proclaimed...