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...Carolyn Eisenberg Copyright © September 1985 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 1985 60 RADICAL HISTORY REVIEW James. From World War Three Illustrated, No. 4. New Left Writers and the Nuclear Arms...

... of him having impact on the culture. It seems to me that people like Reagan had enormous impact on American cul- ture. Really, really devastated it. Nixon was just another bad guy, as far as I can see. Grace Paley is a writer who has been involved in the politics of peace, feminism...

...Jay Garcia The white southern writer Lillian Smith (1897-1966) explored potent codes of class, race, and gender in the American South and the forms of violence and repression they nurtured. Smith's dissident views on American racial custom and her contestation of the segregation and oppression...

...Persis M. Karim This essay highlights the changes in literature in Iran and in the diaspora since the 1979 Iranian Revolution, and it especially emphasizes the role of literature and writers in responding to the societal changes in Iran, as well as to the experience of immigration to the West...

... population, who revived the Yoshitsune legends. The enduring popularity of the legends was aided by the numerous cultural adaptations of the legends produced during the 1930s and 1940s. Writers, historians, and artists shifted away from the consistently debated dualism of historical truth that divided...

...Dawn Fulton Abstract This article examines literary evocations of Afropolitanism in French, with particular attention to millennial works by Black women writers. Narratives and portraits by Lauren Ekué, Léonora Miano, and Rokhaya Diallo reject the Afro-pessimism of twentieth-century visions...

... of the postcolonial city. Using the Invisible Borders Trans-African Project—a decade-long venture bringing together artists, photographers, and writers in road trips across Africa—as a starting point, the essay considers the implications of broadening this imaginary into other borders and postcolonial border beings...

...Areej Akhtar; Javaria Ahmad; Sana Farrukh Khan Abstract This teaching tool is based on Savera ( Dawn ), a left-wing literary periodical published quarterly on the Indian subcontinent from 1946 onward under the leadership of the Progressive Writers’ Movement. The tool foregrounds the genealogy...

...Sara Marzagora; Rafeef Ziadah Abstract This article discusses the relevance of the journal Lotus: Afro-Asian Writings , a trilingual (Arabic, English, French) quarterly published by the Afro-Asian Writers Association from 1968 to 1991, for the development of critical and anticolonial pedagogies...

... meaningful distinctions between violent and peaceful political activity. In recent years, the FBI has become the leading control agency in what scholars and popular writers term the “surveillance society.” The FBI monitors public spaces and has deployed increasingly sophisticated technological surveillance...

... frames these writers' nostalgic recollections of Iran. MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 2009 Revolution, Trauma, and Nostalgia in Diasporic Iranian Women’s Autobiographies Nima Naghibi Twenty years after the 1979 Iranian Revolution, Gelareh Asayesh and Tara Bah...

...Kamran Talattof This essay offers a summary of literary activities since the 1979 Iranian Revolution, pointing out the most important poets, fiction writers, literary critics, literary journals, and literary as well as social events that have affected the production of literary shifts. In so doing...

...M. R. Ghanoonparvar With a brief survey of Iranian fiction and film since the early twentieth century, this article reflects on the changes and developments in these two art forms in recent decades. It argues that although serious writers and filmmakers in the past century displayed a commitment...

...K. Luisa Gandolfo Since 1948 the Palestine-Israel conflict has provided a source of inspiration for writers and photographers both within and outside the region. As the years of war have worn inexorably on, the changes wrought by events in the region have been rendered by Palestinian artists...

... functioned as physiognomic guidelines for the representation of national identity during Germany's turbulent transition from unstable democracy to totalitarian state. As conservative writer Ernst Jünger observed in 1934, portrait photobooks offered “a particularly effective means of tracking down...

...Michael J. Lazzara Civilian complicity remains one of the least studied aspects of Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship and, to this point, has not been a matter of widespread public debate in Chile. This article examines the case of Mariana Callejas, a literary writer who married the American-born DINA...

... the fact that they were first fashioned in the pulp magazines of the 6/RADICAL HISTORY REVIEW twenties and thirties, and that they were created by writers who bore some peculiar feelings toward that industry. For the inventors of hard-boiled fiction, the products of pulp publishing delineated...

...Tara J. Yosso; David G. García (RE)VIEWS “ ’Cause It’s Not Just Me”:   Walkout’s History Lessons Challenge Hollywood’s Urban School Formula Tara J. Yosso and David G. García Half Nelson, directed by Ryan Fleck. DVD, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, 2007. Freedom Writers...