American Protest Literature
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American Protest Literature

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eBook - PDF

American Protest Literature

About this book

"I like a little rebellion now and then"—so wrote Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Adams, enlisting in a tradition that throughout American history has led writers to rage and reason, prophesy and provoke. This is the first anthology to collect and examine an American literature that holds the nation to its highest ideals, castigating it when it falls short and pointing the way to a better collective future.American Protest Literature presents sources from eleven protest movements—political, social, and cultural—from the Revolution to abolition to gay rights to antiwar protest. Each section reprints documents from the original phase of the movement as well as evidence of its legacy in later times. Informative headnotes place the selections in historical context and draw connections with other writings within the anthology and beyond. Sources include a wide variety of genres—pamphlets, letters, speeches, sermons, legal documents, poems, short stories, photographs, posters—and a range of voices from prophetic to outraged to sorrowful, from U.S. Presidents to the disenfranchised. Together they provide an enlightening and inspiring survey of this most American form of literature.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Foreword by John Stauffer
  6. Introduction
  7. 1. Declaring Independence: The American Revolution
  8. The literature
  9. The legacy
  10. 2. Unvanishing the Indian: Native American Rights
  11. 3. Little Books That Started a Big War: Abolition and Antislavery
  12. 4. This Land is Herland: Women’s Rights and Suffragism
  13. The literature
  14. The legacy
  15. 5. Capitalism’s Discontents: Socialism and Industry
  16. 6. Strange Fruit: Against Lynching
  17. 7. Dust Tracks on the Road: The Great Depression
  18. 8. The Dungeon Shook: Civil Rights and Black Liberation
  19. 9. A Problem That Had No Name: Second-wave Feminism
  20. 10. The Word is Out: Gay Liberation
  21. 11. From Saigon to Baghdad: the Vietnam War and Beyond
  22. Sources
  23. Acknowledgments
  24. Index