Authorship, Activism and Celebrity : Art and Action in Global Literature /: Art and Action in Global Literature. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Sandra Mayer, Ruth Scobie.
• Editors: Mayer, Sandra; Scobie, Ruth
• Contents: Notes on ContributorsAcknowledgementsForewordMeena Kandasamy (author, academic and activist)1. Introduction: The Idea of the AuthorSandra Mayer (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria) and Ruth Scobie (University of Oxford, UK) 2. 'Let's Deal with the People Oppressing All of Us': Benjamin Zephaniah in ConversationBenjamin Zephaniah (poet, performer, activist) and Malachi McIntosh (University of Oxford, UK) Section 1. Art as Activism3. Clearing a Space for Multiple, Marginal Voices: The Writers' Activism of PENPeter D. McDonald (University of Oxford, UK), Margie Orford (author; former president, PEN South Africa), Rachel Potter (University of East Anglia, UK), Carles Torner (author, executive director PEN International) and Laetitia Zecchini (CNRS Paris, France)4. Live at the Polari Salon: Literary Performance as ActivismEllen Wiles (Exeter University, UK) 5. 'Bugger Universality': An Exchange with Antjie KrogAntjie Krog (University of the Western Cape, South Africa) and Peter D. McDonald (University of Oxford, UK)Section 2. Activism and the Literary Industry6. Moving Between Worlds: A Writer and a Publisher in ConversationKirsty Gunn (University of Dundee, UK) and David Graham (managing director, Batsford Books, UK)7. Resisting Stereotypes: Art, Activism and the Literature IndustryElleke Boehmer (University of Oxford, UK), Alice Guthrie (translator, editor, curator; Exeter University, UK), Daniel Medin (American University of Paris, France), Charlotte Ryland (director, Stephen Spender Trust; University of Oxford, UK) and Alan Taylor (editor, Scottish Review of Books, UK)8. Fanny Fern and Nellie Bly: Unstable I'sEva Sage Gordon (The Graduate Center, CUNY, USA)Section 3. The Invention of the Public Intellectual9. The Critical Pedagogy of Fiction in Democratic Public SpheresOdile Heynders (Tilburg University, the Netherlands)10. A 'Passive Spectactress'?: Frances Burney and the Eighteenth-Century Writer as Social ActivistAnna Paluchowska-Messing (Jagiellonian University, Poland)11. 'The Indian Cobbett': Radicalism, Empire and Literary Celebrity in the Life of James Silk Buckingham (1786-1855)Kieran Hazzard (University of Oxford, UK)12. 'Literary Criticism Only': Jeyamohan and the Author as Conservative Activist in 'Aram' (2022)Divya A. (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India)Section 4. Writing Europe13. European Connections: Literary Networks, Political Authorship and the Future of Europe DebateBenedict Schofield (University of Bristol, UK)14. Vernon Lee: Transnational Activism aqnd Protest Literature for Art and PeaceElisa Bizzotto (Iuav University of Venice, Italy)15. On Behalf of the Nation: Knut Hamsun and the Politics of AuthorshipTore Rem (University of Oslo, Norway)16. Conclusion: Looking On… Kirsty Gunn (University of Dundee, UK)BibliographyIndex.
• Publisher Details: New York : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (264 pages)
• Subjects: Literary studies: general; Political activism; Art -- Art & Politics; Literary theory
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781501392344; 1501392344
• Related ISBNs: 9781501392337
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