LEADER 02932nam 2200685Ia 450 001 9910791471103321 005 20230207232544.0 010 $a1-58729-922-4 035 $a(CKB)2560000000015092 035 $a(EBL)843218 035 $a(OCoLC)649914569 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000413135 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11305573 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000413135 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10383278 035 $a(PQKB)10182709 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC843218 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse2950 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL843218 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10395958 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000015092 100 $a20091013d2010 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBrave new words$b[electronic resource] $ehow literature will save the planet /$fElizabeth Ammons 210 $aIowa City $cUniversity of Iowa Press$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (214 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-58729-861-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPostmodern 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. 330 $a 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 LaDuk 606 $aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc 606 $aSocial change$xPhilosophy 606 $aHumanism$xSocial aspects 606 $aSocial problems in literature 606 $aSocial justice in literature 606 $aHumanism in literature 606 $aLiterature and morals 606 $aLiterature and society 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc. 615 0$aSocial change$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aHumanism$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aSocial problems in literature. 615 0$aSocial justice in literature. 615 0$aHumanism in literature. 615 0$aLiterature and morals. 615 0$aLiterature and society. 676 $a810.9/35 700 $aAmmons$b Elizabeth$0754442 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910791471103321 996 $aBrave new words$93719183 997 $aUNINA