02928nam 2200685Ia 450 991081039560332120230207232544.01-58729-922-4(CKB)2560000000015092(EBL)843218(OCoLC)649914569(SSID)ssj0000413135(PQKBManifestationID)11305573(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000413135(PQKBWorkID)10383278(PQKB)10182709(MiAaPQ)EBC843218(MdBmJHUP)muse2950(Au-PeEL)EBL843218(CaPaEBR)ebr10395958(EXLCZ)99256000000001509220091013d2010 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrBrave new words[electronic resource] how literature will save the planet /Elizabeth AmmonsIowa City University of Iowa Press20101 online resource (214 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-58729-861-9 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. 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 LaDukAmerican literatureHistory and criticismTheory, etcSocial changePhilosophyHumanismSocial aspectsSocial problems in literatureSocial justice in literatureHumanism in literatureLiterature and moralsLiterature and societyAmerican literatureHistory and criticismTheory, etc.Social changePhilosophy.HumanismSocial aspects.Social problems in literature.Social justice in literature.Humanism in literature.Literature and morals.Literature and society.810.9/35Ammons Elizabeth754442MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910810395603321Brave new words3963734UNINA