Brave new words [electronic resource] : how literature will save the planet / Elizabeth Ammons.

9781587299223 (electronic book)
9781587298615
1587298619

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2010.

English

1 online resource (xiv, 197 p.)

PS169.S57 A66 2010eb

810.9/35

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 LaDuke and Paula Moya and many others- she calls for all humanists to link their work to the progressive literature of the last half century, to insist on activism in the service of positive change as part of their mission, and to teach the power of hope and action to their students.

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