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Against All Authority : Anarchism and the Literary Imagination.
Title:
Against All Authority : Anarchism and the Literary Imagination.
Author:
Shantz, Jeff.
ISBN:
9781845403256
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (183 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Front matter -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Body matter -- Introduction - Against all authority: Anarchism and the literary imagination -- 1 - Writing the anarchist specter: of secret agents and men called Thursday -- 2 - Beyond socialist realism -- 3 - Anarchy against format -- 4 - Intellectual proletarians -- 5 - An in-between socialism? Reflections on Joyce's idiosyncratic politics -- 6 - Beyond socialist realism: Anarchism and glocal concerns in the writings of Wole Soyinka -- 7 - Novel utopias: Feminism and anarchism in the works of Ursula K. LeGuin -- 8 - Staging anarchy: Anarchism and drama -- 9 - DIY anarchy -- 10 - Autoethnography: Writing an anarchist sociology? -- Back matter -- References.
Abstract:
This volume examines historical and contemporary engagements of anarchism and literary production. Anarchists have used literary production to express opposition to values and relations characterizing advanced capitalist (and socialist) societies while also expressing key aspects of the alternative values and institutions proposed within anarchism. Among favoured themes are anarchist critiques of corporatization, prisons and patriarchal relations as well as explorations of developing anarchist perspectives on revolution, ecology, polysexuality and mutual aid. A key component of anarchist perspectives is the belief that means and ends must correspond. Thus in anarchist literature as in anarchist politics, a radical approach to form is as important as content. Anarchist literature joins other critical approaches to creative production in attempting to break down divisions between readers and writer, audience and artist, encouraging all to become active participants in the creative pr...
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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