Yeah, I wasn't really thinking of identity politics, there are an awful lot
of issues begging in the paragraph quoted, and I haven't got breath for
them tonight, it's very 'renig weder' here in our northerly maritime April,
dangerous for me ...
On 18 April 2012 10:53, Chris Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On 18/04/12 17:29, David Bircumshaw wrote:
>
>> (For me, an unsolved problem, since I agree with Trotsky's analysis
>>
> I just found this... this is one of the great books on literary theory and
> criticism, that deserves closer attention. (It is also available online
> from marxist.org)
>
> excerpts from: http://www.socialistaction.**org/auciello4.htm<http://www.socialistaction.org/auciello4.htm>
>
> Review of Trotsky's "Literature and Revolution"
>
> /by Joe Auciello /June 2005 issue of Socialist Action/
>
>
>
> Forty years ago the canon-defining "Norton Anthology of American
> Literature" contained little writing by women and African Americans, and
> nothing by Hispanics and American Indians. The literature of America was
> not only white and male; it was presented as a direct outgrowth of the
> literature of England. No others need apply.
>
> Today, such an edition could not be published. No teacher would assign it,
> and no student would accept such a narrow perspective as informative, much
> less
>
> definitive. This profound change in the literary landscape did not result
> from the discovery of treasure troves of previously unpublished literature
> (though research scholars, especially African Americans, have made
> important discoveries).
>
> Cultural change of this magnitude requires, first, a mass civil rights
> movement, a women's liberation movement, a struggle for gay and lesbian
> rights.Antiwar activists who learned to "Question Authority" also raised
> questions in their classrooms as students and later as scholars and
> teachers. Taken together,
>
> all the movements for peace and social change combined to mold an audience
> who would want to read this new literature and influenced the writers who
> created it (as well as the publishers who profited from printing it).
>
> --
> http://abdevpoetics.blogspot.**com.au/<http://abdevpoetics.blogspot.com.au/>
>
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