Brave new words : how literature will save the planet / Elizabeth Ammons.

By:

Ammons, Elizabeth

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2010.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 197 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781587299223
1587299224

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Brave new words.DDC classification:

810.9/35 22

LOC classification:

PS169.S57 A66 2010eb

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Contents:

Postmodern fundamentalism -- What David Walker and Harriet Beecher Stowe still have to teach us -- The multicultural imperative -- Rising waters -- Jesus, Marx, and the future of the planet.

Summary: Brave New Words challenges present and future literary scholars and teachers to look beyond mere literary critique toward the concrete issue of social change and how to achieve it. Calling for a profound realignment of thought and spirit in the service of positive social change, Ammons argues for the continued importance of multiculturalism in the twenty-first century despite attacks on the concept from both right and left. Concentrating on activist U.S. writers - from ecocritics to feminists to those dedicated to exposing race and class biases, from Jim Wallis and Cornel West to Winona.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Postmodern fundamentalism -- What David Walker and Harriet Beecher Stowe still have to teach us -- The multicultural imperative -- Rising waters -- Jesus, Marx, and the future of the planet.

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Brave New Words challenges present and future literary scholars and teachers to look beyond mere literary critique toward the concrete issue of social change and how to achieve it. Calling for a profound realignment of thought and spirit in the service of positive social change, Ammons argues for the continued importance of multiculturalism in the twenty-first century despite attacks on the concept from both right and left. Concentrating on activist U.S. writers - from ecocritics to feminists to those dedicated to exposing race and class biases, from Jim Wallis and Cornel West to Winona.

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