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American Protest Literature
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"I like a little rebellion now and then"āso 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 movementsāpolitical, social, and culturalāfrom 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 genresāpamphlets, letters, speeches, sermons, legal documents, poems, short stories, photographs, postersāand 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
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword by John Stauffer
- Introduction
- 1. Declaring Independence: The American Revolution
- The literature
- The legacy
- 2. Unvanishing the Indian: Native American Rights
- 3. Little Books That Started a Big War: Abolition and Antislavery
- 4. This Land is Herland: Womenās Rights and Suffragism
- The literature
- The legacy
- 5. Capitalismās Discontents: Socialism and Industry
- 6. Strange Fruit: Against Lynching
- 7. Dust Tracks on the Road: The Great Depression
- 8. The Dungeon Shook: Civil Rights and Black Liberation
- 9. A Problem That Had No Name: Second-wave Feminism
- 10. The Word is Out: Gay Liberation
- 11. From Saigon to Baghdad: the Vietnam War and Beyond
- Sources
- Acknowledgments
- Index
