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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462403403321

Autore

Shantz Jeff

Titolo

Against all authority [[electronic resource] ] : anarchism and the literary imagination / / Jeff Shantz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Exeter, UK ; ; New York, : Imprint Academic, c2011

ISBN

1-283-69245-7

1-84540-325-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (183 p.)

Disciplina

320.57

Soggetti

Anarchism in literature

Political violence in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [133]-138) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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 anarchi...