Du Bois’s Telegram
Literary Resistance and State Containment
Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, American, Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science, Government, Public Policy
| Author: | Juliana Spahr | ISBN: | 9780674988811 |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press | Publication: | October 23, 2018 |
| Imprint: | Harvard University Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Juliana Spahr |
| ISBN: | 9780674988811 |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press |
| Publication: | October 23, 2018 |
| Imprint: | Harvard University Press |
| Language: | English |
Taking her cue from W. E. B. Du Bois, Juliana Spahr explores how state interests have shaped U.S. literature. What is the relationship between literature and politics? Can writing be revolutionary? Can art be autonomous or is escape from nations and nationalisms impossible? As her sobering study affirms, aesthetic resistance is easily domesticated.
Taking her cue from W. E. B. Du Bois, Juliana Spahr explores how state interests have shaped U.S. literature. What is the relationship between literature and politics? Can writing be revolutionary? Can art be autonomous or is escape from nations and nationalisms impossible? As her sobering study affirms, aesthetic resistance is easily domesticated.
